Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0367. Monday, 13 May 1996.
(1) From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1996 19:20:57 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0352 Re: Texts
(2) From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1996 22:51:19 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0361 Re: Texts
(3) From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 12 May 1996 11:51:25 -0500 (EST)
Subj: Re: SHK 7.0361 Re: Texts
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From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1996 19:20:57 +0100
Subject: 7.0352 Re: Texts
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0352 Re: Texts
John Drakakis wrote
>I wonder if I can tease out Gabriel Egan's definition of "fetishism" just a
>little more because I think that while "to invest irrationally with
>significance" will do as a general rule of thumb, I'm not sure that it takes us
>very much further.
Than what? It's what I meant by "fetishize".
>Maybe we should go back to Marx Capital vol.3...
No we should not. Those chunks of Marx and Freud are useless out of their
context. We can and do use "alienation", "fetish", and esp. "production" in a
variety of ways without invoking Marx or Freud's definitions.
> The term "Originals" here I take as relative, i.e. relative to the
>editorial accretions which have accumulated over 400 years.
It has not been a simple process of adding layers for 400 years. You have to
distinguish Augustan 'improvement' from, say, C20 New Bibliography's
privileging of earliest authorial draft over later post-theatrical text.
Editing is an historically situated activity, not a removal of veils.
Gabriel Egan
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From: Gabriel Egan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1996 22:51:19 +0100
Subject: 7.0361 Re: Texts
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0361 Re: Texts
It was William Godshalk who used "biblioholism".
Gabriel Egan
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From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 12 May 1996 11:51:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 7.0361 Re: Texts
Comment: Re: SHK 7.0361 Re: Texts
John Drakakis writes:
>For Wendy Thomas,
>
>Thanks for the reference but I think it was Gabriel Egan not me who used the
>term "biblioholism".
Actually it was me who talked about early seventeenth century biblioholism!
Yours, Bill Godshalk
