Genetic criticism : texts and avant-textes
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Genetic criticism : texts and avant-textes
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University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
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"The eleven essays in this volume were originally written in French. They appear in English here for the first time"--Editor's note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index
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Description
This volume introduces English speakers to genetic criticism, arguably the most important critical movement in France today. In recent years, French literary scholars have been exploring the interpretive possibilities of textual history, turning manuscript study into a recognized form of literary criticism. They have clearly demonstrated that manuscripts can be used for purposes other than establishing an accurate text of a work.
Although its raw material is a writer's manuscripts, genetic criticism owes more to structuralist and poststructuralist notions of textuality than to philology and textual criticism. As Genetic Criticism demonstrates, the chief concern is not the "final" text but the reconstruction and analysis of the writing process. Geneticists find endless richness in what they call the "avant-texte": a critical gathering of a writer's notes, sketches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and correspondence. Together, the essays in this volume reveal how genetic criticism cooperates with such forms of literary study as narratology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, sociocriticism, deconstruction, and gender theory.
Genetic Criticism contains translations of eleven essays, general theoretical analyses as well as studies of individual authors such as Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Zola, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, and Montaigne. Some of the essays are foundational statements, while others deal with such recent topics as noncanonical texts and the potential impact of hypertext on genetic study. A general introduction to the book traces genetic criticism's intellectual history, and separate introductions give precise contexts for each essay.
Table of Contents
Editors' Note
1. Introduction: A Genesis of French Genetic Criticism
2. Genetic Criticism: Origins and Perspectives
-Louis Hay
3. Psychoanalytic Reading and the Avant-texte
-Jean Bellemin-Noel
4. Toward a Science of Literature: Manuscript Analysis and the Genesis of the Work
-Pierre-Marc de Biasi
5. Flaubert's "A Simple Heart," or How to Make an Ending: A Study of the Manuscripts
-Raymonde Debray Genette
6. With a Live Hand: Three Versions of Textual Transmission (Chateaubriand, Montaigne, Stendhal)
-Jacques Neefs
7. Genetic Criticism and Cultural History: Zola's Rougon-Macquart Dossiers
-Henri Mitterand
8. Paragraphs in Expansion (James Joyce)
-Daniel Ferrer and Jean-Michel Rabate
9. Still Lost Time: Already the Text of the Recherche
-Almuth Gresillon
10. Proust's "Confession of a Young Girl": Truth or Fiction?
-Catherine Viollet
11. Auto-Genesis: Genetic Studies of Autobiographical Texts
-Philippe Lejeune
12. Hypertext-Memories-Writing
-Jean-Louis Lebrave
Index
Acknowledgments
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