Stijn Streuvels: De teleurgang van den Waterhoek (The decline of the Waterhoek).

Electronic-critical edition

Marcel De Smedt and Edward Vanhoutte.

CD-ROM ISBN 90-5356-441-1 * 68.06 EUR * $78.85S (tentative) * BEF 2,750 * fl. 150

Stijn Streuvels' (1871-1969) De teleurgang van den Waterhoek (The decline of the Waterhoek) originally appeared in a pre-publication edition in the literary journal De Gids and was first published in 1927. In the second edition, in 1939, it seems that more than 25% of the text was deleted, which included passages that deal with the relationship between the main characters, Mira and Maurice. All the subsequent editions were to use this abridged version.

The answer to what passages were edited out or altered in the various editions--and why--can be found by studying the original manuscripts and the author's correspondence. However, this sort of genetic research has remained the privilege of the editor. Until now, that is. All that has changed with the publication of this electronic-critical edition.

The CD-ROM presents the full text version as it first appeared in its pre-publication form in De Gids; the first edition (with word clarifications); the revised second edition, the digital facsimile of the complete manuscript, the pre-publication and first editions as corrected by Streuvels himself; together with the edition of 71 letters from Streuvels' correspondence and several scholarly articles on the subject.

The MultiDoc Pro on-the-fly SGML Browser software provides advanced search options and makes it possible to annotate the included material, bookmark certain sections, and even create your own hyperlinks. An extensive English manual is included on the CD.

This electronic edition offers many new possibilities for literary scholarship.

Professor Marcel De Smedt teaches Methodology (German Philology) and Textual Criticism at the Catholic University in Leuven. Edward Vanhoutte (licentiate) is the co-ordinator of the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies in Flanders and teaches Humanities Computing and Genetic Editing at the University of Antwerp (UIA).

Published by Amsterdam University Press. Distributed by the University of Michigan Press in Canada and the United States and its dependencies.

Read more about this project:

• 'Elke Bibliotheek een Alexandrijnse. Elektronische publicaties en digitalisering.' in: Leesidee, 7/2 (maart 2001), p. 126-128.
• 'De elektronisch-kritische editie van De Teleurgang van den Waterhoek. Een demonstratie.' in: Marcel De Smedt (red.) Teksteditie Vlaanderen 2000. Gent: KANTL (CTB), 2000, 97-106. (Ook in: Verslagen & Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, jg. 110, 2000/3 (2001), p. 257-366)
• 'Toespraken gehouden op de Studiedag Teksteditie Vlaanderen 2000. 3. Presentatie van de cd-rom door Edward Vanhoutte.' in: Piet Thomas (red.). Vrienden en Wapenbroeders. Jaarboek V van het Stijn Streuvelsgenootschap. Tielt: Lannoo, 2000, p. 318-328.
• 'Where is the editor? Resistance in the creation of an electronic critical edition.' in: Marilyn Deegan, Jean Anderson, and Harold Short (eds.) DRH 98. Selected papers from Digital resources for the Humanities 1998. University of Glasgow, September 1998. (OHC Publication 12). London: Office for Humanities Communication, 2000, p. 171-183.
• 'Project Teksteditie "De teleurgang van den Waterhoek".' in: Jaarboek 2000 van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. Gent: KANTL, 2000, p. 38-40.
• 'Will there ever be another Bibliotheca Alexandrina.' Technotainment Net.
• 'A Linkemic Approach to Textual Variation. Theory and Practice of the Electronic-Critical Edition of Stijn Streuvels' De teleurgang van den Waterhoek.' in: Human IT 1/2000, p. 103-138. http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-00/ev.htm
• 'Project Teksteditie "De teleurgang van den Waterhoek".' In: Jaarboek 1999 van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. Gent: KANTL, 1999, p. 60-63.
• 'Where is the editor? Resistance in the creation of an electronic critical edition.' in: Human IT, 1/1999, p. 197-214. http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-99/ev.htm