Concept information
Preferred term
Eclectic edition
Definition
- An eclectic edition is an edition based on more than one witness. The eclectic edition does not reflect a single witness throughout, such as a documentary edition does, but tries to approximate an earlier stage of the textual transmission by selecting readings from several witnesses. The eclectic edition selects the supposedly best readings wherever there are conflicting readings in the witnesses. The term ‘eclectic’ is also used as a neutral term within the editing of modern texts by leading American critics, following the copy-text theory of Walter Wilson Greg.
Source
- "Edition, eclectic" in Roelli, Philipp, and Caroline Macé. ‘Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum. A Brief Lexicon of Stemmatology’. Edited by Odd Einar Haugen, Marina Buzzoni, and Aidan Conti, November 2015. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-121539.
Example
- Burgio, Eugenio, et al. 2024. 'Digital Edition of the Devisement Dou Monde A Comprehensive Digital Scholarly Edition. Critical Translation and Commentary'. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-872-9.
In other languages
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Italian
URI
https://w3id.org/dh-atlas-vocabularies/etv/EclecticEdition
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