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CFP for ADE Session at MLA 2016 in Austin, Texas
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Not for Your Eyes: Editing Private Documents for Publication The editing of documents not originally intended for publication poses special challenges. Such documents often are difficult to locate in the first place, and their presentation can be complicated by idiosyncratic features that are essential to their nature but that are […]
Call for Papers for an ADE Session at the 2014 MLA Meeting
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Literary Works in Multiple Versions Most literary scholars can think of instances in which an author’s idea has been expressed in several versions, a process that G. Thomas Tanselle has called “vertical revision.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Trimalchio,” for example, became The Great Gatsby. Eudora Welty transformed a short story for […]
ADE at the Modern Language Association Meeting
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The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual MLA meeting in Boston, on 4 January 2013. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy chaired the panel, “Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts,” which featured the following papers: “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,” Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; […]