Modern Language Association Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition

Outros Nomes: MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition (Inglês)

The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites editors, including editors of digital works, to compete for the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition. mostrar mais Established in 1995, the award is presented each odd-numbered year. A multivolume edition is eligible if at least one volume was published during that period. The prize will be given without regard to the field or language either of the editor or of the text presented in the edition. The editor need not be a member of the MLA. To qualify for the award, an edition should be based on an examination of all available relevant textual sources; the source texts and the edited text's deviations from them should be fully described; the edition should employ editorial principles appropriate to the materials edited, and those principles should be clearly articulated in the volume; the text should be accompanied by appropriate textual and other historical contextual information; the edition should exhibit the highest standards of accuracy in the presentation of its text and apparatus; and the text and apparatus should be presented as accessibly and elegantly as possible. mostrar menos