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textual criticism
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textual criticism

The attempt, through scholarship, to establish the most accurate and authentic version of a literary text when several different versions exist.



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of London), while lower criticism is concerned with recovering the authentic text of these documents.
Lower criticism seeks to distinguish text from other variant versions of ancient copies and preserve the original form (Tanselle 1989).
Lower criticism is the term often applied to the field of textual criticism that had been on the scene for some time and is less controversial.
 
 
 
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