The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age

The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age

Curation

The focus of this article is to help eliminate several of the limitations that a traditional print has by providing a new model that suits the digital age. All the while giving readers the chance to participate in an active role regarding their own texts. Not only that, discussions on possibilities as well as prospects for the apparatus criticus regarding text editing and ways to easily access some of the benefits digital scholarships provides. That said, the author starts off by explaining an apparatus criticus and how most don’t even read them by comparing it to how people (usually college students when doing research papers) don’t check let alone read footnotes. So, to change that and get more readers engaged, the author proposes a way to fix that by outlining “what editors and readers can gain from a fundamentally new approach to the apparatus criticus.” In other words, the author wants to “somehow to record every little detail but only to confront the reader with the most important points.” The only problem with that is not every (print) editor does things the same way, some might put only what’s considered important while the rest is in the appendix. As a result, the author will show how he is able to go around that through an explained model throughout the rest of the article.

Classical Association of the Middle West & South, Inc.

Feb-March, 2017

Hannah Baker

Journal Article

Keeline, Tom. “The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age.” Classical Journal 112, no. 3 (2017): 342–63. https://doi.org/10.5184/classicalj.112.3.0342.