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• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction: Conceiving the Life of Texts
• 1 Editing Homer
• Authorship
• Composition and Performance
• Editing
• Conclusion
• 2 The Canon and the Codex: On the Material Form of the Christian Bible
• Paul and his Books
• The Use of the Codex
• Writing the Gospel Tradition
• Time, Space and the Codex
• The Scriptures and the Book
• 3 Wandering Nights: Shahrazād’s Mutations
• A Traveller from the East . . .
• Dawn of the 1001 Nights
• Imaginary Wanderings
• Noctes Volant, Scripta Manent
• Translation and Appropriation
• Appendix I: Main Editions and Translations of the Thousand and One Nights
• 4 A Text in Exile: Dante’s Divine Comedy
• A Very Short Life of Dante
• (How Far Can) Literary Texts (Count) as Evidence?
• The Textual Tradition of the Commedia
• Competing Variant Readings
• A Northern Tradition: ‘Recentiores Non Deteriores’
• ‘Outside the walls’: The Title of the Commedia
• 5 Textual Metamorphosis: The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci
• Size and Quality of the Corpus
• A Chronology of Leonardo’s Manuscripts
• The Models for Leonardo’s Manuscripts
• 6 Montaigne: The Life and After-Life of an Unfinished Text
• 7 Rescuing Shakespeare: King Lear in Its Textual Contexts
• Quartos and the First Folio
• Shakespeare the Reviser
• King Lear
• 8 Textual Evidence and Musical Analysis: Once More on the First Movement of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest
• Introduction: What Is Musical Textuality?
• Textuality, Autonomy and Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata
• Conclusions: In Defence of Musical Textuality
• 9 Fragments Shored against Ruin: Reassembling The Waste Land
• The Drafts of The Waste Land
• The Waste Land: From Composition to Publication
• Reflecting on the Textual Lives of The Waste Land
• Notes
• Index of subjects and themes
• Index of manuscripts and annotated printed copies
• Index of names