Product Description 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. About the Author Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of OxfordDirk 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.

Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature

Literature & Fiction

Van Hulle, Dirk

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

By taking the principles of manuscript genetics and using them to engage in a comparative study of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, Dirk Van Hulle has produced a provocative work that re-imagines the links between the two authors. His elegant readings reveal that the most striking similarities between these two lie not in their nationality or style but in their shared fascination with the process of revision. Van Hulle's thoughtful application of genetic theory--the study of a work from manuscript to final form in its various iterations--marks a new phase in this dynamic field of inquiry. As one of only a handful of books in English dealing with this emerging area of study, Manuscript Genetics, Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow will be indispensable not only to Joyce and Beckett scholars but also to anyone interested in genetic criticism.

Manuscript Genetics, Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow (Florida James Joyce)

University Press of Florida

By taking the principles of manuscript genetics and using them to engage in a comparative study of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett Dirk Van Hulle has produced a provocative work that re imagines the links between the two authors His elegant readings reveal that the most striking similarities between these two lie not in their nationality or style but in their shared fascination with the process of revision Van Hulle s thoughtful application of genetic theory the study of a work from manuscript to final form in its various iterations marks a new phase in this dynamic field of inquiry As one of only a handful of books in English dealing with this emerging area of study Manuscript Genetics Joyce s Know How Beckett s Nohow will be indispensable not only to Joyce and Beckett scholars but also to anyone interested in genetic criticism

British & Irish

Samuel Beckett's Library critically examines the reading notes and marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett's surviving library in Paris. Previously inaccessible to scholars, this is the first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of the library. Setting the library into context with other manuscript material such as drafts and notebooks, Samuel Beckett's Library examines the way in which Beckett absorbed, "translated," and transmitted his reading in his own work. This book thus illuminates Beckett's cultural and intellectual world, and shows the ways in which his reading often engendered writing.

Samuel Beckett's Library

Nixon, Mark

Cambridge University Press

The twentieth century has been called 'the golden age of the modern manuscript,' a time when the historical value of early manuscripts as a record of a writer's thought processes came to be fully recognized. Drawing on the critical tools of French genetic criticism, Modern Manuscripts explores the development of early 20th century literary texts, from source texts and early notes, through successive draft manuscripts to publication and successive editions. Historicizing these modernist processes of writing, Dirk Van Hulle contrasts these twentieth century manuscripts with the development of Charles Darwin's text for On the Origin of Species, itself a formative intellectual influence on modern writing. Exploring the writings of such writers as Joyce, Woolf and Beckett, this is an important study that will open up new avenues of thought for scholars of Modernist literature, material culture and book history.

Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing from Darwin to Beckett and Beyond (Historicizing Modernism)

Bloomsbury Academic

Originally published in French as Malone meurt in 1951 and later translated into English by the author himself, Malone Dies is the second novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes:  A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages  A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history  A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' (The Beckett Manuscript Project)

Verhulst, Pim

Originally published in French in 1951 and translated into English by the author himself four years later, Molloy is the first novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy, continued in Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: 
 A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org 
This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' (The Beckett Manuscript Project)

O'Reilly, Edouard Magessa

The twentieth century has been called 'the golden age of the modern manuscript,' a time when the historical value of early manuscripts as a record of a writer's thought processes came to be fully recognized. Drawing on the critical tools of French genetic criticism, Modern Manuscripts explores the development of early 20th century literary texts, from source texts and early notes, through successive draft manuscripts to publication and successive editions. Historicizing these modernist processes of writing, Dirk Van Hulle contrasts these twentieth century manuscripts with the development of Charles Darwin's text for On the Origin of Species, itself a formative intellectual influence on modern writing. Exploring the writings of such writers as Joyce, Woolf and Beckett, this is an important study that will open up new avenues of thought for scholars of Modernist literature, material culture and book history.

Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing from Darwin to Beckett and Beyond (Historicizing Modernism, 1)

Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to write, cut and rewrite their words, often many times, in order to find the right form. Unearthing what has been jettisoned, moved or edited can give us valuable insights into the creative process. Editorial decisions are documented in an extraordinary number of literary manuscripts, notebooks and letters preserved in libraries and archives. What would Frankenstein have looked like if Mary and Percy Shelley had not collaborated on the draft? Would we view The Wind in the Willows differently if its title had remained 'The Mole & the Water Rat'? This highly illustrated book invites you to explore these roads-not-taken and discover ideas which did not make it into renowned novels, poems and plays.With insights into the drafting techniques of writers as varied as Jane Austen, Christina Rossetti, Raymond Chandler, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, John le Carré, Alan Bennett, Barbara Pym, Philip Pullman and Alice Oswald, this is a fascinating unveiling of the mysteries of writing, cutting, rewriting and publishing exceptional creative works.

Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature

Manuscript Genetics, Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow (Florida James Joyce)

Manuscript Genetics, Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow (Florida James Joyce)

Samuel Beckett's Library

Samuel Beckett's Library

Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing from Darwin to Beckett and Beyond (Historicizing Modernism)

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' (The Beckett Manuscript Project)

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' (The Beckett Manuscript Project)

Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing from Darwin to Beckett and Beyond (Historicizing Modernism, 1)

Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature