Terms vs Stemmatics - What's the difference?
terms | stemmatics |
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
As nouns the difference between terms and stemmatics
is that terms is while stemmatics is the study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.stemmatics
English
Noun
(-)- 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.