The Politics of Editing

Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens

Examines the political context of textual editing in relation to the Spanish canon as well as literary areas that have been marginalized—for example, texts written by nineteenth-century Spanish women and twentieth-century Latin American poets.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Textual Editing, the Writing of Literature, and Literary History

Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens

1. Poema de mio Cid

   Colin Smith

2. Critical Editions and Literary History: The Case of Don Juan Manuel

   Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux

3. A National Classic: The Case of Garcilaso’s Poetry

   Elias L. Rivers

4. The Art of Edition as the Techné of Mediation: Garcilaso’s Poetry as Masterplot

   Iris M. Zavala

5. The Politics of Editions: The Case of Lazarillo de Tormes

   Joseph V. Ricapito

6. Editing Theater: A Strategy for Reading, an Essay about Dramaturgy

   Evangelina Rodríguez

7. Editing Problems of the Romancero: The Romantic Tradition

   Pere Ferré

8. Toward a Feminist Textual Criticism: Thoughts on Editing the Work of Coronado and Avellaneda

   Susan Kirkpatrick

9. Framing Contexts, Gendered Evaluations, and the Anthological Subject

   Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

Afterword: The Editor’s Eros

Tom Conley