Textual Criticism: Quotes Quiz
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Q. Who said, "There has arisen what may be called the tyranny of the copy-text"?
W. W. Greg
R. B. McKerrow
A. W. Pollard
G. Thomas Tanselle
Q. Who said, "Textual bibliography takes as its end the logical scientific control of the eclectic method"?
G. Thomas Tanselle
John Bryant
Fredson Bowers
A. W. Pollard
Q. Who said, "Editing is, above all else, a matter of forms"?
Jerome McGann
Peter L. Shillingsburg
W. W. Greg
Herman Melville
Q. Who said, "All works—because of the nature of texts and creativity—are fluid texts"?
Jerome McGann
Fredson Bowers
Christopher Marlowe
John Bryant
Q. Who said, "… 'Final authority' for literary works rests neither with the author nor with his affiliated institution"
A.W. Pollard
Jerome McGann
W. W. Greg
Peter L. Shillingsburg