Arthur Valerius Sterling Foundation

An electronic archive · established 2008 · editorially maintained

The Afterlife of a Text

Record statusProvisional · public lecture · date unknown · incomplete lecture notes.
AuthorElizabeth Crawford
FormPublic lecture
DateUnknown
Documentary focusHow copying, quotation, translation, teaching, and later readers alter a text’s setting.
Layer / provenanceTransmedia web record; title associated with Elizabeth’s provisional archive.

Description

This record describes proposed lecture notes on the changes a text undergoes after its first setting. The occasion and institutional context are not established.

Record boundary

The title and form are approved as provisional archival records. The notes are incomplete and undated; no delivery or complete text is claimed.

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