The New Modernist Editing

现代主义编辑领域(编辑现代主义时期的文本)在最近几年发生了巨大的变化。随着现代主义作家的作品从版权中脱颖而出，现代主义文本的新版也出现了前所未有的数量。因此，现在迫切需要让在现代主义编辑中从不同的理论和方法论角度工作的关键人物面对面地聚集在一起，分享他们的经验和专业知识，加强他们自己的实践，并将其传播给更广泛的受众(详情见附件中的支持案例)。我们已经确定了新现代主义编辑(或NME)作为一个概念，以描述在准备和生产现代主义文本的学术和编辑实践方面的重要最近发展。这些发展包括：-对编辑现代主义文本所带来的一系列特殊挑战和机遇的学术认识，例如保持渗透在现代主义美学中的流动性和不确定性的精神，并考虑到许多现代主义作家进行的自觉修改过程；-现代主义文学批评领域的最新发展，使得有必要彻底评估现代主义文本编辑的责任，最引人注目的是1999年成立现代主义研究协会，成立了新现代主义研究；-文本编辑方面的最新发展，更广泛地包括对文本出版物的材料背景的关注，但最引人注目的是遗传批评，它审查文本的草稿版本，而不侧重于“最后”文本；-在线版本：新的数字技术的发展使学者能够以传统图书形式不可能的方式展示他们的文本专门知识和研究。迄今为止，从事各种不同现代主义版本工作的学者聚集在一起讨论他们在这一领域的工作的机会非常有限，而且没有一个还包括其他关键利益攸关方，如出版商、档案保管员、文本编辑理论家和其他现代主义文本版本的制作者(如图书艺术家)。我们的项目旨在促进这种交流，将NME建立为一种连贯的、原创的和富有成效的跨学科文本编辑方法，并将这一项目传达给学术内外的广泛受众。该网络将探索NME提供的现代主义学术、文本编辑和出版实践的机遇和挑战。该网络将跨越学科界限，吸收现代主义文学、比较文学、文本学术和数字人文领域的学者，并通过包括传统出版社、独立数字出版商、档案管理员和图书艺术家的代表，超越学术范围。网络参与者也经过了精心挑选，以便代表从博士后到教授的一系列职业阶段，并包括英国目前正在进行的所有主要新现代主义版本的代表，以及参与进一步项目的国际参与者。该网络将通过将数字技术发展为现代主义文本编辑提供的机会作为其目标的根本考虑，就艺术和人文领域的数字变革这一AHRC主题进行发言。它将围绕三个关键问题组织一系列三个活动：1.什么是新现代主义编辑？2.它的现有和潜在受众是什么？3.NME如何应对新的文化生产条件？英国目前正在进行的所有主要现代主义版本都将出席--这是该领域关键编辑前所未有的一次聚会。

The field of modernist editing (the editing of texts from the modernist period) has changed dramatically over recent years. There are also an unprecedented number of new editions of modernist texts being published, as modernist authors' works emerge from copyright. It is, therefore, now urgently necessary to enable key figures working from a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives in modernist editing to come together in person to share their experience and expertise, enhance their own practice, and disseminate this to a wider audience (for details see attached Case for Support).We have identified the New Modernist Editing (or NME) as a concept to describe the important recent developments in scholarly and editorial practice in the preparation and production of modernist texts. These developments include: - Scholarly awareness of the particular set of challenges and opportunities presented by the editing of modernist texts, such as preserving the spirit of fluidity and uncertainty which permeates modernist aesthetics, and taking account of the self-conscious process of revision undertaken by many modernist writers; - Recent developments in the modernist literary critical field making necessary a thoroughgoing appraisal of the responsibilities of the editor of the modernist text, most notably the inauguration of the New Modernist Studies by the establishment of the Modernist Studies Association in 1999; - Recent developments in textual editing more generally, including the focus on material contexts of a text's publication, but also and most notably genetic criticism which examines draft versions of the text without focussing on a 'final' text; - Online editions: the development of new digital technologies enabling scholars to present their textual expertise and research in ways not possible through the traditional book format.Hitherto, there have been only very limited opportunities for scholars working on the various different modernist editions underway to come together to discuss their work in this field, and none that has also included other key stakeholders such as publishers, archivists, theorists of textual editing and other makers of editions of modernist texts (such as book artists). Our project seeks to enable this exchange, establish the NME as a coherent, original and productive interdisciplinary approach to textual editing, and communicate this project to a wide audience within and beyond the academy.This Network will explore opportunities and challenges to modernist scholarship, textual editing and publication practices offered by the NME. The Network will cross disciplinary boundaries by including scholars in the fields of modernist literature, comparative literature, textual scholarship and the digital humanities, as well as reaching beyond the academy by including representatives of traditional publishing houses, independent digital publishers, archivists, and book artists. Network participants have also been carefully selected so that a range of career stages, from postdoctoral to Professor, are represented, and to include representatives of all the major new modernist editions currently underway in the UK, as well as international participants involved in further projects. The Network will speak to the AHRC theme of Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities by integrating, as fundamental to its aims, consideration of the opportunities offered to editors of modernist texts by developments in digital technology. It will offer a series of three events organised around three key questions:1. What is the New Modernist Editing?2. What are its current and potential audiences?3. How does the NME respond to the new conditions of cultural production?All the major modernist editions currently underway in the UK will be represented - an unprecedented coming together of key editors in the field.