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Russian traditions

Textology, Pushkin studies and the digital future

An umbrella term that defines the Russian traditions of textual criticism, history of text, and editorial technique is “textology.” The interest in the author’s manuscripts arose in Russia in the pre-Romantic age. Nineteenth-century positivist scholars of Aleksandr Pushkin’s writings were the first to start publishing his holographs. Pushkin editions became a testing ground and a paragon for all other editions of Russian classics. In the late 1920s, ex-formalists Boris Tomashevsky and Sergei Bondi revised the pre-revolutionary approach to presenting a set of drafts and variants. Instead of topographic transcriptions advocated by the Pushkin Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, they developed the method of a layer-by-layer reproduction of literary autographs. Contemporary digital publication formats can effectively resolve this antinomy.
Keywords: textology, base text, creative history, holographs, topographic transcription, layer-by-layer reconstruction, printed and digital facsimiles
Article outline
  • “Textology”: A brief history
  • Pushkinistics and Pushkin editions
  • Printed and digital facsimiles
  • Notes
  • References
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