Manuscrit de base et variantes de tradition dans le Chevalier de la charrette by Stefano Asperti, Caterina Menichetti, Maria Teresa Rachetta

“…However, such resources have had little impact on the discussion concerning textual criticism, in the context of the vivid debate about the Copie Guyot (BNF, fr. 794), the manuscrit-de-base (guide-manuscript) of all the recent editions of the roman. …”
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Une réponse à Gabriel Josipovici et à son The Book of God : Pour une approche renouvelée des études comparatistes sur la Bible et la littérature by Alexandra Ivanovitch

“…Not only does he study the “Bible as literature”, and question the validity of certain categories pertaining to textual criticism, but, also, he does not hesitate to comment on literature through a Biblical prism, by invoking works from theologians and exegetes who sometimes embark on literary criticism without quite knowing it. …”
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« N’importe… » : s’être (ou s’avoir) aimé by Sylvie Triaire

“…The Éducation sentimentale has led to conflicting interpretations, not only in the 20th Century, between the old psychological and idealistic criticism and textual criticism limited to strict literalness, but also when the novel was published.  …”
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Jean-Baptiste Camps, La Chanson d’Otinel. Édition complète du corpus manuscrit et prolégomènes à l’édition critique by Jean-Baptiste Camps

“…Starting with the tangible objects that manuscripts are, and proceeding to the study of the tradition and work itself, this study aims to provide a new examination of all the available data, in order to enable a restoration of a song that has know an important diffusion in Medieval Europe, but whose scattered remains only are available to us.This study is given a firmly methodological orientation, and searches to apply to the edition the epistemological progresses brought by recent contributions in the field of textual criticism and ecdotics, as well as by what is now called “Digital Humanities”. …”
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Shelley Jacksons’s Gender Politics in Patchwork Girl (1995): a Cyborg Approach by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…Rather, Patchwork Girl prompts the reader into adopting a gaze that is “modular and fragmentary” and facilitates her active participation in the textual criticity inherent in the rhizomatic form of the hypertext. …”
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The History of the Creation and Promotion of the First Consolidated Text of the Bashkir Folk Epic “Idukai and Muradim” by Khabutdinova M.M.

“…A comparative analysis of the editions of the consolidated text of 1928 and 1933 indicates that there was a “general constructive premeditation” aimed at actively influencing the reader, following the established genre and stylistic canon, as was noted by the textual critic. The history of Naki Isanbet’s cooperation with the Academia publishing house eliminates not only one of the “blind spots” in the history of the existence of this consolidated text, but also indirectly characterizes the circle of collaborative contacts of the Tatar scientist with Russian folklorists in 1930.…”
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