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Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature

by Dirk Van Hulle
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780192846792
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: USD 105.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 604 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Semiotics & Theory

In Genetic Criticism, Dirk Van Hulle introduces the study of creative processes to an Anglophone audience. As a method in the study of literary writing processes, genetic criticism is also a reading strategy. The idea behind this book is to introduce this strategy to a broader audience, from interested readers and graduate students to early career researchers and literary critics. In literary studies, it is often obvious that a particular work somehow seems to hit a nerve, but more challenging to pinpoint exactly why it 'works'. This book therefore starts from a clear, basic assumption: knowing how something was made can help us understand how and why it works.

This strategy is at the basis of many disciplines, including art history. By means of X-ray technology or hyperspectral imaging, it is possible to look at a painting as a multilayered object with not only spatial dimensions, but also a temporal one. This temporal dimension is the core of the reading strategy introduced in this book. Note books, marginalia, manuscripts, and typescripts (even if one works with scans) give a concrete dimension to literature, which is a helpful reading strategy for many students. On the one hand, this involves concrete, transferrable skills such as aspects of transcription and digital scholarly editing. On the other hand, it also involves more abstract theoretical issues relating to matters of authorship, collaboration, authority, agency, intention and intertextuality.

Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford. He directs the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET), and the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. He is the editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (Michigan, 2004), Modern Manuscripts (Bloomsbury, 2014), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge, 2015), the Beckett Digital Library, and several editions in the MLA award-winning Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.

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