Textual Criticism and Digital Editing, or Where is the Criticism in Digital Editions?

Textual criticism in Indology and in European

This paper discusses the post-enlightenment development of philology in Europe during the 19-20 centuries, particularly in the German speaking areas. After several centuries of sustained interest in the Graeco-Roman Classics, all types of medieval, older European and Asian literatures became the focus of new textual approaches. Prominent was an historical and critical approach bolstered by the ...

Workshop on Tool Criticism in the Digital Humanities

This document reports on the discussions and results of the Workshop on Tool Criticism in the Digital Humanities, that took place on May 22, 2015 in Pand 020, Amsterdam. The workshop was co-organized by Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the eHumanities group of KNAW and the Amsterdam Data Science Center.

Some Basic Textual Criticism Terms Defined

Textual Criticism and the Turbulent Life of the Platform Sūtra

The Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch is one of the most widely known and beloved texts produced by Chinese Buddhism. However, what makes the Platform Sūtra especially interesting is the fact that uniquely among Chinese Buddhist texts it is extant in a number of editions that differ significantly from one another, spanning the eighth to the thirteenth centuries. Thus the Platform Sūtra is n...

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...