Works and Traditions: Early Modern Encounters, edited by Angelo Deidda, Donatella Pallotti and Paola Pugliatti

In order to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses and The Waste Land, the 2022 issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, entitled ‘Works and Cultural Traditions: Early Modern Encounters’, will investigate forms of transition of cultural configurations from previous to later manifestations: patterns and models of retrieval and restoration of styles, forms, genres, and so on. From the perspective of the receiving culture, contributions address the ways in which works are received, manipulated, restored, re-transmitted, collaboratively re-presented, ‘performed’ and translated into different cultural and historical formations. Keeping the focus of attention on early modern European culture(s), the volume reflects on the notions of ‘work’, ‘text’ and ‘document’ and their relationships with practices of reading, editing, printing, publishing and ‘making meaning’; as well as investigations of particular case studies. Further, the volume discusses early modern texts in relation to the ideas of source, originality and imitation, quotation and borrowing, rewriting, transmuting, parody, validation by authority, authentication and restoration.