Word: textual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper something of the fleeting beauty of the films. . . ." That Cinema Arts' hope was completely realized by its first issue last week was debatable. Much of what it had frozen on its 90 pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations of current U. S. moods, fashions and philosophies as seen in the Cinema, were impressive. Critic Richard Watts Jr., Director Rouben Mamoulian, Author Jim Tully, Singer Mary Garden, Scenarist Homer Croy contributed...
...most important textual changes shown is that by Coleridge in his proof-copy of "The Sibylline Leaves," on a verse of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." After heavily crossing out the verse...
This edition is not equipped with full textual notes. Professor Kittredge is now preparing his annotated volume-by-volume "Shakespeare". There is a glossary included, however, of 42 triple columned pages, which is doubtless as exhaustive and as thorough as any such labor ever attempted. The complete works are here for the lover of Shakespeare in a most scrupulously workman-like and most enjoyable form...
...Contemplating what has been done to Shakspere's punctuation, so that the meaning of many Shaksperian passages is often wrenched, Cummings was moved to adopt a system of punctuation which is singular, and its singularity will ensure him (a hundred years hence) of a pure text. His faith in textual critics, it seems, is unshakable...
...that there was something more to literature than an escape from reality and a vicarious romance, lie goes on to say that "Because this method of studying literature demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some of the verve and vigor that it had long ceased to possess." His austerity came through his belief that his position could not be otherwise...