ruth weiss: Complete Works Critical Hybrid Edition

The aim of the project is to create an edition of the complete works of ruth weiss (1928-2020, name always in lower case). The edition brings together 20 volumes of poetry published by the Beat poet between 1958 and 2013, as well as 12 plays. Most of weiss volumes of poetry have been out of print for decades. The edition also collects around 200 poems that appeared in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers, etc. between 1950 and 2019 for the first time. It consists of a multi-volume annotated print edition alongside an online open-access version with an extended, comprehensive commentary, which will be set up as a multimedia platform. In addition to various data and information illuminating the texts and substantial biographical essays, this platform will also be able to make digitized original manuscripts, typescripts or (first) editions as well as audio- visual files (weiss jazz & poetry performances, her film and stage work, interviews) freely available to scholars and the interested public. The annotated personal, time, place and other factual information will serve to contextualize ruth weiss` works in terms of biography, literary history and literary sociology and provide knowledge resources that can be used for a wide range of further research (e.g. [Transnational] Beat Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Exile Studies, Ecocriticism). This pioneering project is a significant basic research contribution to Beat Studies, namely to textual recovery and preservation, biographical examination of female Beat authors, as well as to research into cross-genre and transnational literary processes in general. It is the first time ever that a complete, hybrid edition of works by a poet of the Beat movement has been compiled. In addition, it will make an enormous number of texts and materials relevant to research available for the first time or make them accessible again after decades. The edition is a contribution to the publication of the results of biographically oriented text commentary and to the presentation of a body of work that transcends artistic genres. In addition, the project will make an enormous number of texts and materials relevant to research available to the public as open-access for the first time or make them accessible again after decades.

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