Gertrude Stein: Descriptions of Literature (1926)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · book, literature
One of the rarest of all Stein’s publications.
With drawing by Pavel Tchelitchew
Publisher George Platt Lynes & Adlai Harbeck, Englewood, New Jersey, May 1926
As Stable Pamphlets series, 2
folded 8-page leaflet
via Internet Archive
L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson: Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (1968/1991)
Filed under book | Tags: · antiquity, book, history, history of literature, literature, middle ages, print, publishing, renaissance, scholarship, textual criticism, transmission of texts, writing
“One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to the hazards of fire, flood, and war. This book explains how the texts survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to spend the necessary effort to preserve them for future generations.
In the second edition a section of notes was included, and a new chapter was added to deal with some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance. In the third edition, the authors responded to the urgent need to take account of the very large number of discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by substantially revising or enlarging certain sections.”
Publisher Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968
Third edition, 1991
ISBN 0198721463, 9780198721468
352 pages
Review (of 2nd ed., E. Christian Kopff, The Classical Journal, 1976)
Review (M. Possanza, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1991)
PDF (12 MB)
Comment (0)Lee Baxandall, Stefan Morawski (eds.): Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings (1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art theory, capitalism, literary theory, literature
A concise compilation of texts divided into nine sections with a judicious introductory essay by Morawski.
Translations and selections by Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski
Introduction by Stefan Morawski
Publisher Telos Press, St. Louis/MI, 1973
ISBN 0914386026
175 pages
via Charles, in the Unlimited Edition
Review: M. L. Raina (Minnesota Review, 1975)
Marxist aesthetics on Monoskop wiki
PDF (5 MB, updated to an OCR’d version via Marcell Mars)
See also Margaret A. Rose’s Marx’s Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts, 1984.
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