Study edition
On the one hand, a study edition is an edition of a textbook or reference work produced - especially for students - that corresponds to the standard edition in terms of content, but is much cheaper due to the lower quality of paper and binding and simpler design.
Scientific term
In literary studies, a study edition is an edition-scientific form of the print. In order to simplify the reading of a variant apparatus or to make it obsolete, two versions of a work are printed synoptically (i.e. side by side) - sometimes also as a facsimile . Thus, for example, two different versions of Goethe's Welcome and Farewell can be compared, discussed and studied without having to acquire previous knowledge of reading a variant apparatus.
Issues that attempt to do this not only selectively but across the board are called historical-critical issues . The publication referred to above as the "standard edition" is, from a literary point of view, the reading edition. If this has been cleared of (translation) errors by scientists, it is called a critical issue .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jochen Vogt: Invitation to literary studies. 6th, exp. u. updated edition. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2008, p. 84.