Annotation and the Social Edition

Justin Tonra

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Annotation and the Social Edition

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The argument presented by a scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a very small group of editors. But is it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multipleperhaps competingarguments? As lately conceived and practiced, the social edition promises to enable the presentation of differing interpretations and arguments, prompting us to reconsider some of our fundamental ideas about the form and function of scholarly editions. This essay reflects on one particular aspect of scholarly editingannotationand examines some of the theoretical issues behind crowdsourcing annotations of a literary work.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts
Publisher	Routledge
ISBN (Electronic)	9.78147E+12
ISBN (Print)	9.78147E+12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564807
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin

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