textual criticism

branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism
Intangible academic_discipline Q275456
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textual criticism

Summary

textual criticism is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 868 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #130 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • textual criticism's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • textual criticism's instance of is recorded as academic major[4].
  • textual criticism's instance of is recorded as literature term[5].
  • textual criticism is a type of criticism[6].
  • textual criticism is a type of textual scholarship[7].
  • textual criticism's Commons category is recorded as Textual criticism[8].
  • textual criticism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Textual criticism[9].
  • textual criticism's described at URL is recorded as https://historicum-estudies.uni-koeln.de/leitfaeden/leitfaden-mittelalter/kritische-editionen/textkritik[10].
  • textual criticism's described by source is recorded as Oxford Companion to the Book (First Edition)[11].
  • textual criticism's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • textual criticism's described by source is recorded as A Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory (5 ed. p)[13].
  • textual criticism's described by source is recorded as Metzler Literatur Lexikon (2 ed.)[14].
  • textual criticism's used by is recorded as historical-critical edition[15].
  • textual criticism's used by is recorded as critical edition[16].
  • textual criticism's different from is recorded as historical-critical edition[17].
  • textual criticism's practiced by is recorded as textologist[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3], academic major[4], and literature term[5]. Recorded subclass of include criticism[6] and textual scholarship[7].

Use and Application

Recorded used by include historical-critical edition[15] and critical edition[16].

Why It Matters

textual criticism draws 868 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #130 of 1,010).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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