Table of contents : COVER Front Copyright page Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Essay 1: The Evidence for Literary Knowledge Essay 2: Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee Essay 3: The Semiotics of Bibliography Essay 4: Some Functions of Textual Criticism Essay 5: Responsibility for Textual Changes in Long-Distance Revisions Essay 6: Text as Communication Essay 7: Revisiting Authorial Intentions Essay 8: How Literary Works Exist Essay 9: Convenient Scholarly Editions Essay 10: Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise Essay 11: Work and Text in Nonliterary Text-Based Disciplines Essay 12: Publishers’ Records and the History of Book Production Essay 13: Cultural Heritage, Textuality, and Social Justice Bibliography Index COVER Back