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Commentary as Cultural Artifact

University Of California Humanities Research Institute Conference

University of California Irvine
June 1-3, 1990

The Colloquium explored the cultural implications of the passage from script to print by focusing on the question of commentary, annotation, marginalia, and marginality during the period from the late Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. The colloquium theorized the manuscript, book, and writing/printing to reexamine the basic textual vehicles of Western culture during this vital transitional period. As the heterogeneity of the medieval codex gave way to the printed text and then to the prototype of the modern critical edition, the concepts of annotation, commentary, and marginality underwent profound changes. These changes raise key questions concerning canonicity, linked to new notions of authorship and to the printing press as the new means of textual production.

Publications by the Participants: A Bibliography

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

Stephen Barney
Cynthia Brown
Kevin Brownlee
Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Michael Camille
Brigitte Cazelles
Joan DeJean
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Michael Jeanneret
Christian Jouhaud
Laura Kendrick
Anne Middleton
Stephen G. Nichols, Jr.
Carol Braun Pasternack
Lee Patterson
Jeffrey Schnapp
Peter Stallybrass
Eugene Vance

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