PMLA 121 1
From Commonplace Book
PMLA 121.1 Special Topic: The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature (Jan 2006)
Price Reading Matter
- 10 ..."Book history" has come to stand for materialist resistance to theory, to idealism, even to ideas.
- ... Bibliographers' failure to account for the specificity of the literary is all the more striking given how often their raw materials are borrowed from a canon established by literature departments. In 1932, W.W. Greg declared, "Books are the material means by which literature is transmitted; therefore bibliography, the study of books, is essentially the science of the transmission of literary documents."
- in "Bibliography - An Apologia" -- too literary (he elsewhere corrects)
