News
2024.05.22
On March 12, 2024 (Tuesday), the Research Center for Textual Scholarship held a symposium entitled “An Introduction to Comparative Textual Scholarship - Poland, Taiwan, Germany, Japan” in Room 321, Building 3 of Seijo University. At this event, the current research state and prospects about the editing of texts by representative writers from different countries and regions were discussed in detail.
At the symposium, four scholars reported on the history and current state of the editing of Czeslaw Mi?osz, Lu Xun, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Soseki Natsume.
Dr. Mateusz Antoniuk (Jagiellonian University) discussed Mi?osz’s poem “Seasons” from the perspective of the genetic criticism (critique génétique), which has developed mainly in France, and psychoanalysis. He highlighted the need for a “genetic edition” to share the interpretation of the reading of his manuscripts.
Next, Dr. Yi Peng (National Central University, Zhongli) gave a presentation on the theoretical consideration of genetic criticism, particularly focusing on avant-texte and ?uvre, on which the 78-volume “The Collected Manuscripts of Lu Xun”, published in 2021, is based on in its editing. He also discussed the position of the edition and the direction that editions should take in the future.
Dr. Katrin Henzel (Kiel University) reported on the importance of the digital (historical-critical) edition of Goethe’s “Faust”, showing the actual writing process of the work. She noted the imperfection of this edition, arguing that it is necessary to keep track of current trends in textual scholarship in other countries for editing methods and practices that take even greater account of the users.
