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Reconstructing vs Stemmatics - What's the difference?

reconstructing | stemmatics |

As a verb reconstructing

is .

As a noun stemmatics is

the study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

reconstructing

English

Verb

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    • stemmatics

    English

    Noun

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  • The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
  • * 2004 , Conor Fahy, "Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism", page 404 in'' Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, & Peter L. Shillingsburg (eds.), ''Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies
    • In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics , after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.

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    * stemma