Texts, Editors, and Readers : Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Textual criticism in a post-heroic age; 2. The rhetoric of textual criticism/textual criticism as rhetoric; 3. Establishing the text 1: recension; 4. Establishing the text 2: conjecture; 5. Establishing the text 3: interpolation, collaboration, and intertextuality; 6. Textual criticism and literary criticism: the case of Propertius; 7. Presenting the text: the critical edition and its discontents; 8. The future: problems and prospects; Appendix: reading a critical apparatus.