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Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
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A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
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Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
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Olga Beloborodova
Beloborodova, Olga
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University of Antwerp
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
University of Oxford
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Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the literary draft in Europe and beyond. It is organised according to eight categories of comparison distributed over the volume’s two parts, devoted respectively to ‘Text’ (i.e. the textual aspects of creative processes) and ‘Beyond Text’ (i.e. aspects of creative processes that are not necessarily textual). Across geographical, temporal, linguistic, generic and media boundaries, to name but a few, this book uncovers idiosyncrasies and parallels in the surviving traces of human creativity while drawing the reader’s attention to the materiality of literary drafts and the ephemerality of the writing process they capture.
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Introduction
The draft in literary history
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
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Part 1. Text
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Chapter 1.1. Temporal comparison
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1.1.1. Medieval holograph manuscripts
Absence and ubiquity
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Daniel Wakelin
Wakelin, Daniel
Daniel
Wakelin
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amanuensis
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author
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copy
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dictation
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draft
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letter
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practical
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revision
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scribe
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variance
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While all medieval books are manuscripts, it is often said that few are authorial holographs; most are copies by other scribes for circulation. Many traces of composition have been lost, as that process occurred orally or on ephemeral materials. Nonetheless, some authorial holographs survive and show similar stages of composition and revision to the literary holographs of later periods. In addition, scribal copies themselves show evidence of rewriting that could potentially be considered a kind of authorship, thus making these copies into holographs for scribal authors, especially in works of pragmatic literacy. Authorial holographs are therefore not rare but ubiquitous.
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1.1.2. Early modern holograph manuscripts
English literary manuscripts, 1450–1700
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H. R. Woudhuysen
Woudhuysen, H. R.
H. R.
Woudhuysen
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autograph
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CELM
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fair copy
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holograph
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manuscript
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Peter Beal
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scribes
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Early modern holograph manuscripts are particularly well served by Peter Beal’s online <i>Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450–1700</i>. Using this resource, it is possible to study the autograph literary manuscripts of 236 named authors. The question of whether their holographs are drafts or fair copies is by no means always certain. Different sorts of manuscripts, the forms they take, and the occasions on which they were written are described and particular attention is paid to those by women. While often relying on professional scribes to produce fair copies, writers themselves tended to like revising those manuscripts, as well as to revise and correct their own autograph fair copies.
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1.1.3. The eighteenth century
The progressive emergence of eighteenth-century European literary manuscripts
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Nathalie Ferrand
Ferrand, Nathalie
Nathalie
Ferrand
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avant-textes
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codicology
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enlightenment
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genetic criticism
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marginalia
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national treasure
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reception theory
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Révolution
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scroll
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transparence accrue [increased transparency]
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The eighteenth century used to enjoy a bad reputation among scholars interested in literary drafts, suffering from its situation between two great moments in the history of the literary manuscript: the medieval period, when the manuscript tradition was the sole possible channel of a work’s dissemination, and the “contemporary” period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the importance accorded to the manuscript was that of a valuable testimony to “the genius of the author”. Fortunately, new developments in scholarship have changed this situation in the course of the last few decades. The present chapter sets out to analyse the emergence into greater prominence, in the field of eighteenth-century studies, of drafts, sketches and manuscripts. The movement toward a growing interest in such documents has been nourished by textual genetics, an innovative critical approach which has led scholars to ascribe to them greater meaning in the interpretation of the author’s action.
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1.1.4. The nineteenth century
Textual studies in an age of abundance
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Seamus Perry
Perry, Seamus
Seamus
Perry
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curation
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drafts
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Jerome McGann
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manuscripts
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nineteenth century
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variants
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Classical textual theory based itself on the idea of an authorial manuscript which was almost always missing; but textual studies of the modern period, as theorised by McGann, face a different problem: not an insufficiency of data but a surfeit of it. In fact, not all nineteenth-century authors thought to preserve their manuscripts, but many did, and the abundance of material produced by this change in literary culture creates a whole new set of challenges for the textual scholar. Where does textual authority lie in a complex field of multiple texts, both in draft and in successive print editions?
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1.1.5. The twentieth century
Nib, type, word
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Bryony Randall
Randall, Bryony
Bryony
Randall
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archive
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composition
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draft
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editing
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error
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holograph
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revision
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typescript
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typewriter
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word processor
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This chapter offers an overview of tendencies in manuscript revision habits over the twentieth century, providing examples from twenty different writers. While the typewriter was already widely used by the end of the nineteenth century, handwriting remained the primary mode of initial literary composition until well into the twentieth; the first section of this chapter explores this practice and variations on it. Around mid-century, writers were more actively exploring the creative opportunities offered by composition on a typewriter. The chapter’s final section explores the effect of word-processing technologies on authors’ revision habits, as well as the advent of the “born digital” manuscript, and the challenge presented by the digital archive.
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1.1.6. The twenty-first century
From paper notebooks to keystroke logging
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Lamyk Bekius
Bekius, Lamyk
Lamyk
Bekius
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
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analogue draft
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born-digital literature
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digital draft
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genetic criticism
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hybrid draft
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keystroke logging
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nanogenesis
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writing process
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In the twenty-first century, the digital medium has become an indispensable part of the literary writing process and can hardly be neglected in the study of the literary draft from this – yet very recent – millennium. In this chapter, we examine four manifestations of the twenty-first century literary draft on a spectrum ranging from fully analogue to fully digital: the paper draft of Ian McEwan’s <i>Atonement</i>, the self-archived digital draft of Bart Moeyaert’s <i>Het paradijs</i>, the hybrid draft of Gie Bogaert’s <i>Roosevelt</i>, and the keystroke logging draft of David Troch’s story “Mondini”. These types of drafts offer their respective levels of granularity to examine the writing process, and especially the latter type of draft presents us with a hitherto unprecedented degree of detail, opening up the document’s nanogenesis.
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1.2.1. Nordic traditions
The study of modern Finnish and Scandinavian manuscripts
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Sakari Katajamäki
Katajamäki, Sakari
Sakari
Katajamäki
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edition philology
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Finnish literature
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genetic criticism
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historical-critical editions
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Nordic literature
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Nordic networking
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Romanticism
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Scandinavian literature
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textual criticism
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writers’ archives
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In the continental Nordic countries, the relatedness of the Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and the status of Swedish as an official language of Finland have contributed to the transnational interaction in textual scholarship and edition philology. Historically, especially the Romantic, nation-oriented thought has influenced the way in which literary archives have been assembled and organised. In the twentieth century, many extensive Scandinavian and Finnish editorial projects of canonised nineteenth-century writers have had an important impact on the availability and usability of archival sources, and have enabled academic training in the use of literary manuscripts. Thus, even the most recent trends in the study of literary drafts are historically based on the infrastructures, practices and scholarly traditions derived from Romanticism.
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1.2.2. Russian traditions
Textology, Pushkin studies and the digital future
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Igor Pilshchikov
Pilshchikov, Igor
Igor
Pilshchikov
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base text
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creative history
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holographs
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layer-by-layer reconstruction
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printed and digital facsimiles
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textology
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topographic transcription
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An umbrella term that defines the Russian traditions of textual criticism, history of text, and editorial technique is “textology.” The interest in the author’s manuscripts arose in Russia in the pre-Romantic age. Nineteenth-century positivist scholars of Aleksandr Pushkin’s writings were the first to start publishing his holographs. Pushkin editions became a testing ground and a paragon for all other editions of Russian classics. In the late 1920s, ex-formalists Boris Tomashevsky and Sergei Bondi revised the pre-revolutionary approach to presenting a set of drafts and variants. Instead of topographic transcriptions advocated by the Pushkin Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, they developed the method of a layer-by-layer reproduction of literary autographs. Contemporary digital publication formats can effectively resolve this antinomy.
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1.2.3. Eastern European traditions
Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian literary drafts
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Mateusz Antoniuk
Antoniuk, Mateusz
Mateusz
Antoniuk
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Jirí Flaišman
Flaišman, Jirí
Jirí
Flaišman
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Michal Kosák
Kosák, Michal
Michal
Kosák
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Ágnes Major
Major, Ágnes
Ágnes
Major
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Martin Navrátil
Navrátil, Martin
Martin
Navrátil
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Dmytro Yesypenko
Yesypenko, Dmytro
Dmytro
Yesypenko
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archives
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Czech
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genetic criticism
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Hungarian
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Polish
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rough draft
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Slovak and Ukrainian literature
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This chapter refers to literature in five languages: Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian. Firstly, it presents the histories of Eastern European literary drafts. In this section answers to the following questions are delivered: from what time do the oldest surviving rough drafts date? How did the culture of archiving evolve? What impact did historical events have on the state of preservation of the documents? The focus then shifts to the issue of the genetic approach in Eastern European scholarship. The aim of this section is to discuss how creative writing processes were dealt with by different philological traditions. Finally, East European reception of <i>critique génétique</i> is presented.
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1.2.4. Anglophone traditions
Dealing with drafts of modern literary manuscripts
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Paul Eggert
Eggert, Paul
Paul
Eggert
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anglophone scholarly editing
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archival reporting
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Cornell Yeats
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draft manuscript
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editorial theory
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Emerson’s Journals
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genetic criticism
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genetic edition
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reading
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version
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Spurred on by new editions of works of modern literature in which manuscript materials are often extant, editorial theory since the 1980s has been laying the groundwork for the wider introduction of a genetic perspective on the works of Anglophone authors. Resistance to the idea from the 1940s is traced. The editing of writers’ journals during the 1970s–1990s shows a hesitation to follow the brave lead of the Harvard edition of Emerson’s Journals in recording in-text cancellations and additions. Editors’ conceptions of the reader of their editions have evolved since 1950. The advent of the Cornell Wordsworth and Cornell Yeats editions broadened understanding of the editorial-archival function; the method has become accepted as the base-line responsibility of digital editors.
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1.2.5. German traditions
Between author-centricity and dynamic texts
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Katrin Henzel
Henzel, Katrin
Katrin
Henzel
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author-centricity
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early Romanticism
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genetic edition
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Goethe
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historical-critical edition
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literary archive
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Nachlass
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nation building
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textual growth
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the canon
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In German-speaking countries, scientific, poetological as well as political criteria have shaped literary archives, especially during the nineteenth century – with impact on their selection of manuscripts regarding authors, epochs and genres to the present day. The historical-critical edition and the genetic edition as one of its subtypes can be seen as a <i>product</i> of these circumstances and will be considered in this chapter to point out the varying role of literary drafts on the perception and reception of literary works. This must also include a critical examination of the German editorial tradition that – although a gradual change is emerging – still predominantly concentrates on canonical works.
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1.2.6. French traditions
Confronting the traces of creation
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Franz Johansson
Johansson, Franz
Franz
Johansson
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autograph
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avant-texte
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codicology
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creative process
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digital media
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edition
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genetic criticism
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invention
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philology
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public / non-public
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Victor Hugo’s bequest of all his work documents to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1881 shook off a tradition characterised by a certain indifference to the manuscript in its material and historic existence. Despite some one-off undertakings, it was not until the 1960s that an original theory and a systematic method of examining manuscripts, and more particularly drafts in their various forms, was developed in France: genetic criticism’s concerns and procedures, in their intention to understand the gestation processes of a work through each of its material traces, have spread throughout Europe and the world, and have become essential in the field of textual criticism.
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1.2.7. Italian tradition
From Humanism to authorial philology
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Paola Italia
Italia, Paola
Paola
Italia
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archival will
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authorial philology
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authorial will
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authorship
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genetic criticism
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Humanism
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scartafacci
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The history of genetic criticism in the Italian tradition starts with Humanism, and from Francesco Petrarch’s “Codice degli Abbozzi” (fourteenth century). This chapter traces the framework of this tradition, highlighting how, with the simple but revolutionary gesture of leaving even the ugliest copies of his own masterpieces – the so-called “scartafacci” – to posterity, Petrarch created a model of an intellectual, a champion of classicism, the “style to be imitated”. Petrarch’s model left a trace of the toil of writing, the labor limae, which is considered the secret of style. From Machiavelli to Guicciardini, from Ariosto to Tasso, the “authorial function” has delivered a model of conservation and philology. After the triumph of the “scartafacci”, two exemplary nineteenth-century cases (Manzoni and Leopardi) will be discussed, as well as the twentieth-century text production, in which the study of manuscripts, tormented by countless revisions, reveals a possible “grammar of corrections” and is flanked by crucial problems of authorship.
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1.2.8. Drafts on the Iberian Peninsula
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João Dionísio
Dionísio, João
João
Dionísio
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author
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blank spaces
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draft
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scribal hand
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textual genetics
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Previously unobserved in a global view, drafts belonging to Iberian literary and cultural traditions are here exploratorily approached in accordance with a wide sense of the term “draft”. The chapter is divided into four sections: following some preliminary remarks, several <i>desiderata</i> for a future history of drafts in the Iberian Peninsula are presented; the second section reflects upon the coincidence (or lack thereof) between intellectual property and scribal agency in the composition of drafts; the third is focused on the morphology and function of blank spaces in genetic materials; the conclusion discusses, and contests, the idea of the draft as an unsuitable transcription, arguing in turn for its status as a site where fluid authorial goals are enacted.
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1.2.9. Postcolonial traditions
Toward comparative genetic criticism through a Caribbean lens
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Rachel Douglas
Douglas, Rachel
Rachel
Douglas
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Caribbean
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Dany Laferrière
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endangered literary archives
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Frankétienne
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Haiti
20
Haitian boatpeople
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Kamau Brathwaite
20
postcolonial genetic criticism
20
rasanblaj (gathering/reassembling)
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rewriting
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This chapter discusses literary drafts in the context of postcolonial endangered archival situations. My aim is to examine how certain archival situations, particularly across the Caribbean region, have impacted writers’ creative processes, leading to a significant tradition of published books, which have a distinctive <i>manuscriptesque</i> aura. What will become clear is that these postcolonial writers and their works purposefully straddle and disrupt the old spatial boundaries separating Caribbean islands from one another, and from Europe, and North America. This chapter looks at comparative genetic criticism through a decolonial Caribbean lens. Such a comparative approach to postcolonial literary drafts from the region is apt because the Caribbean space remains balkanised along old colonial linguistic lines to this day.
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1.3.1. Writer’s block
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Diane Purkiss
Purkiss, Diane
Diane
Purkiss
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Ernest Hemingway
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flow
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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manuscript
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Milton
20
muse
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trauma
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writer’s block
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writing process
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This chapter explores writer’s block by analysing the rewards of the writing process and its causation using a mixture of behaviourism and neuroscience, in an effort to move beyond the idea that writing is about rational intent. In particular, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow is used to describe the pleasure available to writers and it is suggested that this in itself explains writing. A short section on the invocation to the Muse suggests that difficulties in composition occur throughout writing history. Through three case studies – John Milton, Ernest Hemingway, and J. R. R. Tolkien – the highly individual experience of writer’s block and its remedies are demonstrated.
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1.3.2. Revision
Rereading, reliving, rewriting
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Hannah Sullivan
Sullivan, Hannah
Hannah
Sullivan
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creative writing
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editing
20
Henry James
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intentionality
20
Mansfield Park
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manuscript
20
modernism
20
revision
20
revision history
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typescript
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writing pedagogy
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Understood in its broadest sense, as the amelioration or improvement of an earlier textual state, revision is a universal compositional practice. At the same time, authors’ ideas about revision, their capacity for making changes, and the changes themselves are strongly influenced by both the material circumstances of writing and by broader cultural ideas about originality and the ontology of artworks. In addition, the study of revision informs very different intellectual disciplines and methodologies: creative writing pedagogy; editorial practice; traditional biographical criticism; and genetic criticism. This chapter provides a basic typology of different types of revision and comments on the complex types of evidence with which critics have to contend.
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1.3.3. Translation archives
Ontologies of the translation draft over time
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Anthony Cordingley
Cordingley, Anthony
Anthony
Cordingley
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archives
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critique génétique
20
genetic criticism
20
genetic translation studies
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translation
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translation history
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This chapter details how archives containing literary translation drafts from the early modern period to the present supply evidence that can challenge conventional views of both translatorship and authorship. Three cases are explored in depth. First, two of the oldest known translation drafts in English, Samuel Ward’s (1572–1643) recently discovered draft of apocryphal text 1 <i>Esdras</i> (<i>Ezra</i>) and his partial draft of <i>Wisdom</i> 3–4.6 for the King James Bible provoke a new understanding of the ontology of the translation draft in this period. Second, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s unpublished self-translations of his poems into Italian for the Florentine Contessina, Teresa (Emilia) Viviani della Robbia cast his long poem <i>Epipsychidion</i> (1821) in a different light, revealing Shelley’s cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Third, the archives of the German translator of French <i>nouveau roman</i> authors Elmar Tophoven form a node of significance connecting literary figures and networks across Europe.
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Chapter 1.4. Generic comparison
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1.4.1. Poetry
The form and culture of poetic creation in English poetry manuscripts, 1600–2000
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Wim Van Mierlo
Mierlo, Wim Van
Wim Van
Mierlo
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collecting
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composition
20
creativity
20
draft
20
history of writing
20
inspiration
20
manuscript
20
modernist poetry
20
post-war poetry
20
romantic poetry
20
victorian poetry
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Surveying the form and cultural significance of English poetry manuscripts in the period since 1600, this chapter looks at the unique features of the poetry manuscript. The first section discusses the authenticity value of poetry manuscripts as objects that were collected and exchanged. As gifts within domestic and literary networks, poetry manuscripts often held special value, representing the physical embodiment of friendship. The material proximity to the hand that created the poem forms the subject of the second section on creativity. Bringing to the fore conflicting attitudes towards the poet’s workshop, this section offers a reflection on the working of the imagination as manifested on the page. This finally leads to an investigation of the creative traces recorded on the manuscript, which analyses modes of composition as well as the poet’s own special relationship with their manuscript and how, as physical object, the manuscript impacts on the creative process.
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1.4.2. Drama
How the page becomes a stage
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Edith Cassiers
Cassiers, Edith
Edith
Cassiers
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directing book
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director’s theatre
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drama drafts
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genetic criticism
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performance documentation
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postdramatic theatre
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Regiebuch
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theatre notation
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Theatre is often defined by its ephemerality, its fundamental presence in the here and now. Can we circumvent performance’s immediacy and study theatre through the genetic documents of its creative process? How are drama drafts related to other literary drafts? Can we use the same methodological techniques to study drama and literary drafts? In this chapter, I will first suggest a new definition for drama drafts and discuss the theoretical domain of genetic criticism as an analytical tool. In the second part, I will explain the differences between dramatic and other literary drafts, and connect them to the challenges of genetic criticism as research methodology. In the third and final part, I will propose an alternative genetic research model on the basis of the directing book as drama draft.
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1.4.3. Prose
Extended and distributed creativity in prose fiction
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Olga Beloborodova
Beloborodova, Olga
Olga
Beloborodova
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AI
20
cognitive science
20
collaborative creativity
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distributed cognition
20
extended mind
20
literary collaborations
20
manuscript research
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prose fiction
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writing studies
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This chapter addresses and questions the seemingly solitary nature of prose writing, using two cognitive theories (extended mind and distributed cognition) that place cognition outside the boundaries of the human brain and advocate instead an inextricable connection between the brain and the world. Specifically, the tight coupling between the writing mind and literary drafts testifies to the crucial importance of these objects to the writing process, and a number of examples of creative collaborations (the Shelleys, Michael Field, Ilf and Petrov) demonstrate that creativity in prose writing is more often than not distributed and as such is not that different from those genres that are typically considered collaborative (such as drama). This distribution of cognition also applies to works that are not co-authored, as Beckett’s correspondence shows. The conclusion relates the chapter’s main ideas to the future of prose writing, namely the advent of AI and its impact on creativity.
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1.4.4. <i>Kleine Prosa</i>
The poetics of the draft in prose sketches, prose poems, flash fiction and related small forms
1
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Dirk Göttsche
Göttsche, Dirk
Dirk
Göttsche
20
aphorism
20
emblem
20
essay
20
fragment
20
genre theory
20
literary modernism
20
microfiction
20
prose poem
20
prose sketch
20
small forms
01
This chapter explores the poetics of the draft in the transgeneric field of modern small prose forms from the aphoristic “fragments” of the Romantic period, through the prose sketches and prose poems of the nineteenth century, to microfiction (flash fiction), emblematic short prose, literary notes (<i>Aufzeichnungen</i>) and digital formats in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The German notion of <i>Kleine Prosa</i>, which moves beyond the narrow focus on narrative forms in the English term “short prose”, provides the conceptual framework. The chapter foregrounds German literature but also considers other European-language literatures in comparative perspective. The point of departure is the overlap between the poetics of these modernist short forms – which undercut established genre patterns, experiment with innovative modes of writing and invite reader participation in the construction of meaning – and the history of the draft, note-taking, rewriting in modern literary practice since the eighteenth century.
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Chapter 1.5. Editorial comparison
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1.5.1. Textual fluidity
Biography, history, and adaptive revision
1
A01
John Bryant
Bryant, John
John
Bryant
20
adaptive revision
20
Billy Budd
20
biography
20
collation
20
fluid-text editing
20
historicism
20
Melville Electronic Library
20
race
20
replay
20
source appropriation
20
version
01
Grounding biography and literary history in the phenomena of writing requires a theory of textual fluidity that unifies authorised and adapted versions. Such theorizing should also account for the anxieties of historicism in matters of textual evolution (Henry Adams) and of source appropriation as “replay” (Claude Monet). Melville’s late “adaptive revision” of William James’s naval history and of his own recollected biographical events in his writing of <i>Billy Budd</i> constitutes constitute an alternative historicism that enhances his “inside narrative” voice. Tracing adaptive revision from these personal and literary appropriations in <i>Billy Budd</i> to adaptations in translation and film versions of <i>Moby-Dick</i> expands the biographical scope of Melville’s writing as a modern phenomenon. The full range of adaptive revision is best represented in digital editing with a highly atomised database such as OCHRE that can accommodate asymmetric collation, revision sequencing and narration, and the interoperability of online editions.
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1.5.2. Pruning
Editorial intervention and its effects
1
A01
Tim Groenland
Groenland, Tim
Tim
Groenland
20
cutting
20
editing
20
interpretation
20
Jean Rhys
20
modernism
20
pruning
20
reception
20
revision
20
textual variance
01
Editorial intervention is often essential to a text’s development, and yet the work of literary editors is often obscured. This chapter examines some of the critical issues around the role of the editor, arguing for the importance of the editorial process and considering examples of textual development and critical issues resulting from it. Specifically, it analyses the editing of the ending of Jean Rhys’s <i>Voyage in the Dark</i> to demonstrate the way in which textual cutting can significantly impact a literary work’s development and reception; these kinds of cuts can echo throughout an author’s career in surprising ways.
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1.5.3. Orthography. <hie> <i>rogue</i> glyphics
Spelling between manuscript and print
1
A01
Kathryn Sutherland
Sutherland, Kathryn
Kathryn
Sutherland
20
Charles Dickens
20
Jane Austen
20
John Clare
20
manuscript
20
printers’ manuals
20
Robert Burns
20
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20
speech forms
20
standardisation
20
Walter Scott
01
When it comes to orthography, there is no straightforward triumph of type technology over manuscript. If printing brought greater regularisation, it did so over centuries. Until at least 1900, spelling variation signified the flexibility available within public printed and private handwritten text. Examples in verse and prose from c.1600–1900 suggest how spelling is bound up with issues of readership and standard usage, on the one hand, and, on the other, of recording those forms that lie beyond print: dialect, slang, archaisms, phonetic rendering of speech forms, and more. Orthographic irregularity represents the world as multi-voiced, providing a rhythm for both eye and ear. Authors, publishers, and printers have all used spelling to censor or enable communication.
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389
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1.5.4. Punctuation
Dorothy Richardson, the long modernist novel, and the literary draft
1
A01
Scott McCracken
McCracken, Scott
Scott
McCracken
20
Dorothy Richardson
20
experiment
20
literary draft
20
modernism
20
punctuation
01
All literary drafts manifest the signs of their provisionality. For experimental writers, such as the pioneering modernist writer, Dorothy Richardson, who resist the illusion of the artwork as complete, the improvisatory nature of the draft is a strength, a quality the writer carries over to the published version. This chapter reads the manuscript of <i>Pointed Roofs</i>, the first “chapter-volume” of Richardson’s long modernist novel <i>Pilgrimage</i>, in order to examine three aspects of Richardson’s compositional method: first, its experimental nature, which includes a degree of improvisation; second, her innovative use of punctuation, ellipses, and compression; and third, the relationship between the Richardsonian sentence and the emergence of modernist prose at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Part 2. Beyond text
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Chapter 2.1. Material comparison
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409
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2.1.1. Paper
1
A01
Andrew Honey
Honey, Andrew
Andrew
Honey
20
Jane Austen
20
literary drafts
20
manuscripts
20
paper
20
paper history
20
writing paper
01
This chapter uses Jane Austen as a case study to explore the roles that paper, the underlying support, play within literary drafts. It investigates whether her choice and use of paper within a relatively small surviving corpus reveal methods and habits of writing. It demonstrates the types of evidence that can be drawn by studying the physical marks and characteristics of paper. Examples show that much can be gleaned from careful characterisation and comparison of the physical features of any paper used for literary drafts. Paper might be thought a neutral carrier, but the conscious or unconscious choices of paper by a writer, coupled with their habits and preferences of use, leave material evidence independent of the written text.
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416
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2.1.2. Born-digital documents
1
A01
Isabelle Van Ongeval
Van Ongeval, Isabelle
Isabelle
Van Ongeval
20
born-digital texts
20
cross-disciplinary research
20
digital curation practices
20
digital forensics
20
literary archives
01
These are exciting times for literary archivists. Nowadays, a writer’s legacy presents itself as large chunks of hybrid and disrupted data, partly analogue and partly digital. This chapter reflects on the challenges faced by literary archivists in acquiring, managing, and unlocking born-digital archives of writers, publishers, and literary organisations. There is a real threat of gaps emerging in collections of literary archives, because of the hybrid way a writer writes in the twenty-first century, as well as the unpreparedness of archival institutions. Literary archives are in need of technical skills for dealing with born-digital content in many forms, from obsolete carriers to online content. Finally, they need to work on the writers’ awareness of the fragility of their digital content. Overall, there is a strong need for more and structural collaboration with IT professionals, academics, and the makers of literary archives in order to secure, manage, and unlock born-digital literary archives.
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432
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2.1.3. Archiving practices
The preservation and loss of autograph English literary manuscripts
1
A01
Christopher Fletcher
Fletcher, Christopher
Christopher
Fletcher
20
archives
20
autograph
20
born-digital
20
collectors
20
culture
20
heritage
20
library
20
literary
20
manuscripts
01
The survival or loss of autograph literary manuscripts is considered, particularly in the context of British materials and drawing frequently but not exclusively upon the holdings of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A chronological approach demonstrates the accruing importance attached to manuscripts written in the hand of their authors by collectors, institutions, scholars, the public and other agents, including funders and legislators. Reference is made to recent developments in the area of joint acquisition and questions are raised about the future of the autograph manuscript in the digital age.
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Chapter 2.2. Conceptual comparison
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449
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2.2.1. Metaphors for the writing process
1
A01
Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
20
cognition
20
genetic criticism
20
manuscripts
20
metaphors
20
romantic genius
20
writing process
20
writing strategies
20
writing studies
01
This chapter discusses various metaphors that have been suggested as conceptual models by numerous authors in the past to try and understand aspects of their creative process and the roles of the literary draft. The question is whether they are all equally apt. By juxtaposing several of them, the aim is to investigate to what extent certain metaphors are forms of writers’ self-representation that may not always correspond with the reality of what is left in the drafts. These metaphors are organised in three sections, focusing respectively on questions of “Authorship” (ways of framing what it is to be a maker or creator), “Inspiration” (imagination, invention, discovery as cognitive phenomena) (Clark 1997), and “Perspiration” (writing strategies, tactics and techniques).
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456
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2.2.2. Models for genetic criticism
1
A01
Daniel Ferrer
Ferrer, Daniel
Daniel
Ferrer
20
creative writing
20
genetic criticism
20
modelling
20
process vs product
01
Genetic critics are faced with what scientists call an inverse problem: starting from the observed effects (the final work and all the available traces left in the course of the labour of creation), they want to reconstruct the process that produced these effects. The solution of such problems generally involves the production of models and their subsequent adjustment to the empirical data. More generally, models are used to provide us with a simplified representation of reality whenever the data is too rich and the factors involved are too complex to be directly apprehended. In our field, models can hardly be mathematical formulae governing sets of identified parameters; they are more likely to be analogies that help us to grasp the peculiar logic that is at work in the creative process. Some of these models are implicit in the work of genetic critics: it is preferable to make them explicit so as to be conscious of their limitations.
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Chapter 2.3. Intermedial comparison
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2.3.1. Film
Authorship, versions and revisions
1
A01
Tom Paulus
Paulus, Tom
Tom
Paulus
20
Film as ontological and material object
20
film authorship
20
film distribution and recutting
01
This chapter aims to test the saliency of textual or genetic criticism for film studies. My suggestions take two directions: on the one hand, I propose that the philological task of the genetic critic to compare different versions of a literary text, finds an equivalent in the job of the film preservationist. In a second move, I look at the problematic of creative control in an art rooted from the beginning in an industrial model. Considering the American “auteur” cinema of the 1970s, I argue that the filmmaker’s newly-won right of “final cut” led to endless revisions and the “modernist” sense that the “text” can never be finished.
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2.3.2. Television
From pre-production to programme-making and dissemination
1
A01
Jonathan Bignell
Bignell, Jonathan
Jonathan
Bignell
20
archive
20
audience
20
BBC
20
Doctor Who
20
science fiction
20
screenwriting
20
script
20
television
20
the 1960s
20
TV drama
01
A focus on the details of how TV drama scripts were commissioned, edited and realised offers insight into the relationships between writers and television institutions. This study of the early years of the BBC’s popular science fiction series <i>Doctor Who</i> is based on archival documents from the 1960s and shows how the role of the screenwriter was negotiated in relation to the opportunities and constraints of format, genre, cost and intended audience, at a time of rapid and dynamic change in British television culture. The decisions about screenwriting analysed in this chapter affected how <i>Doctor Who</i> developed in the 60 years that followed, and also impacted how the BBC thought about its cultural and social mission of Public Service Broadcasting.
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2.3.3. Architecture
The culture of building
1
A01
Eireen Schreurs
Schreurs, Eireen
Eireen
Schreurs
2
A01
Lara Schrijver
Schrijver, Lara
Lara
Schrijver
20
architecture
20
building cultures
20
cultural codes
20
design process
20
material culture
20
visual analysis
01
This chapter addresses architecture as a cultural and visual medium, in which the design process is typically hidden in office archives and the multiple media of design genesis. In modernist architecture, the architect was seen as a visionary genius and a semblance of “purity” was integral to understanding a building’s design. This stands in contrast to how buildings have historically come to be: it neglects the many actors and elements that “construct” the final project, from materials available to local building habits and from contractors to codes and regulations. Revisiting the design process from the perspective of genetic criticism allows a review of the multiple paths that are brought together in a final, working drawing from which the contractor can begin to build. This chapter addresses the pre-construction design phase from initial sketch to final plans in order to reveal how different media intervene in the thought process, and how building cultures express themselves in the result.
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2.3.4. Music
Sketching performance
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John Rink
Rink, John
John
Rink
20
Chopin
20
composition
20
creative history
20
music editions
20
music manuscripts
20
music scores
20
music sketches
20
musical notation
20
performance
01
This chapter begins by acknowledging the impossibility of capturing musical thought in notational form and by highlighting the concomitant provisionality of music scores. It then considers the creative input required of performers when they bring musical notation “to life” in sound and in time. This leads to a case study on the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin, for whom the act of notation posed innumerable difficulties not least because he continually reimagined and revised his musical ideas. The chapter as a whole thus challenges any assumptions we might have about the identity and stability of the Chopin work and of music more generally, while also raising thorny questions about the best means of representing music’s creative history in editions and performances themselves.
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2.3.5. Radio
Between text and sound
1
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Pim Verhulst
Verhulst, Pim
Pim
Verhulst
20
Andrew Sachs
20
BBC
20
Caryl Churchill
20
Dylan Thomas
20
feature
20
genetic criticism
20
Harold Pinter
20
radio drama
20
radio play
20
transmediality
01
After contextualising the radio medium in relation to theatre, television and film, and then distinguishing between different types of radio drama, this chapter argues that radio plays are a hybrid (text/sound) art form, as opposed to a “purely acoustic” one, that needs to be researched from an archival perspective, which includes not only drafts, production scripts and recordings, but also ancillary materials such as letters and documents preserved at broadcasting services. In order to illustrate this point, it uses genetic criticism as a methodological framework and four case studies broadcast on the various networks of the BBC: Dylan Thomas’s <i>Under Milk Wood</i> (1954), Harold Pinter’s <i>A Slight Ache</i> (1959), Caryl Churchill’s <i>Identical Twins</i> (1968) and Andrew Sachs’s <i>The Revenge</i> (1978).
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1
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Hans Walter Gabler
Gabler, Hans Walter
Hans Walter
Gabler
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Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the literary draft in Europe and beyond. It is organised according to eight categories of comparison distributed over the volume’s two parts, devoted respectively to ‘Text’ (i.e. the textual aspects of creative processes) and ‘Beyond Text’ (i.e. aspects of creative processes that are not necessarily textual). Across geographical, temporal, linguistic, generic and media boundaries, to name but a few, this book uncovers idiosyncrasies and parallels in the surviving traces of human creativity while drawing the reader’s attention to the materiality of literary drafts and the ephemerality of the writing process they capture.
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Introduction
The draft in literary history
1
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
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Part 1. Text
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Chapter 1.1. Temporal comparison
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1.1.1. Medieval holograph manuscripts
Absence and ubiquity
1
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Daniel Wakelin
Wakelin, Daniel
Daniel
Wakelin
20
amanuensis
20
author
20
copy
20
dictation
20
draft
20
letter
20
practical
20
revision
20
scribe
20
variance
01
While all medieval books are manuscripts, it is often said that few are authorial holographs; most are copies by other scribes for circulation. Many traces of composition have been lost, as that process occurred orally or on ephemeral materials. Nonetheless, some authorial holographs survive and show similar stages of composition and revision to the literary holographs of later periods. In addition, scribal copies themselves show evidence of rewriting that could potentially be considered a kind of authorship, thus making these copies into holographs for scribal authors, especially in works of pragmatic literacy. Authorial holographs are therefore not rare but ubiquitous.
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1.1.2. Early modern holograph manuscripts
English literary manuscripts, 1450–1700
1
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H. R. Woudhuysen
Woudhuysen, H. R.
H. R.
Woudhuysen
20
autograph
20
CELM
20
fair copy
20
holograph
20
manuscript
20
Peter Beal
20
scribes
01
Early modern holograph manuscripts are particularly well served by Peter Beal’s online <i>Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450–1700</i>. Using this resource, it is possible to study the autograph literary manuscripts of 236 named authors. The question of whether their holographs are drafts or fair copies is by no means always certain. Different sorts of manuscripts, the forms they take, and the occasions on which they were written are described and particular attention is paid to those by women. While often relying on professional scribes to produce fair copies, writers themselves tended to like revising those manuscripts, as well as to revise and correct their own autograph fair copies.
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1.1.3. The eighteenth century
The progressive emergence of eighteenth-century European literary manuscripts
1
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Nathalie Ferrand
Ferrand, Nathalie
Nathalie
Ferrand
20
avant-textes
20
codicology
20
enlightenment
20
genetic criticism
20
marginalia
20
national treasure
20
reception theory
20
Révolution
20
scroll
20
transparence accrue [increased transparency]
01
The eighteenth century used to enjoy a bad reputation among scholars interested in literary drafts, suffering from its situation between two great moments in the history of the literary manuscript: the medieval period, when the manuscript tradition was the sole possible channel of a work’s dissemination, and the “contemporary” period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the importance accorded to the manuscript was that of a valuable testimony to “the genius of the author”. Fortunately, new developments in scholarship have changed this situation in the course of the last few decades. The present chapter sets out to analyse the emergence into greater prominence, in the field of eighteenth-century studies, of drafts, sketches and manuscripts. The movement toward a growing interest in such documents has been nourished by textual genetics, an innovative critical approach which has led scholars to ascribe to them greater meaning in the interpretation of the author’s action.
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1.1.4. The nineteenth century
Textual studies in an age of abundance
1
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Seamus Perry
Perry, Seamus
Seamus
Perry
20
curation
20
drafts
20
Jerome McGann
20
manuscripts
20
nineteenth century
20
variants
01
Classical textual theory based itself on the idea of an authorial manuscript which was almost always missing; but textual studies of the modern period, as theorised by McGann, face a different problem: not an insufficiency of data but a surfeit of it. In fact, not all nineteenth-century authors thought to preserve their manuscripts, but many did, and the abundance of material produced by this change in literary culture creates a whole new set of challenges for the textual scholar. Where does textual authority lie in a complex field of multiple texts, both in draft and in successive print editions?
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1.1.5. The twentieth century
Nib, type, word
1
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Bryony Randall
Randall, Bryony
Bryony
Randall
20
archive
20
composition
20
draft
20
editing
20
error
20
holograph
20
revision
20
typescript
20
typewriter
20
word processor
01
This chapter offers an overview of tendencies in manuscript revision habits over the twentieth century, providing examples from twenty different writers. While the typewriter was already widely used by the end of the nineteenth century, handwriting remained the primary mode of initial literary composition until well into the twentieth; the first section of this chapter explores this practice and variations on it. Around mid-century, writers were more actively exploring the creative opportunities offered by composition on a typewriter. The chapter’s final section explores the effect of word-processing technologies on authors’ revision habits, as well as the advent of the “born digital” manuscript, and the challenge presented by the digital archive.
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1.1.6. The twenty-first century
From paper notebooks to keystroke logging
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Lamyk Bekius
Bekius, Lamyk
Lamyk
Bekius
2
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
20
analogue draft
20
born-digital literature
20
digital draft
20
genetic criticism
20
hybrid draft
20
keystroke logging
20
nanogenesis
20
writing process
01
In the twenty-first century, the digital medium has become an indispensable part of the literary writing process and can hardly be neglected in the study of the literary draft from this – yet very recent – millennium. In this chapter, we examine four manifestations of the twenty-first century literary draft on a spectrum ranging from fully analogue to fully digital: the paper draft of Ian McEwan’s <i>Atonement</i>, the self-archived digital draft of Bart Moeyaert’s <i>Het paradijs</i>, the hybrid draft of Gie Bogaert’s <i>Roosevelt</i>, and the keystroke logging draft of David Troch’s story “Mondini”. These types of drafts offer their respective levels of granularity to examine the writing process, and especially the latter type of draft presents us with a hitherto unprecedented degree of detail, opening up the document’s nanogenesis.
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99
1
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13
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Chapter 1.2. Spatial comparison
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chlel.35.07kat
100
111
12
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14
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1.2.1. Nordic traditions
The study of modern Finnish and Scandinavian manuscripts
1
A01
Sakari Katajamäki
Katajamäki, Sakari
Sakari
Katajamäki
20
edition philology
20
Finnish literature
20
genetic criticism
20
historical-critical editions
20
Nordic literature
20
Nordic networking
20
Romanticism
20
Scandinavian literature
20
textual criticism
20
writers’ archives
01
In the continental Nordic countries, the relatedness of the Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and the status of Swedish as an official language of Finland have contributed to the transnational interaction in textual scholarship and edition philology. Historically, especially the Romantic, nation-oriented thought has influenced the way in which literary archives have been assembled and organised. In the twentieth century, many extensive Scandinavian and Finnish editorial projects of canonised nineteenth-century writers have had an important impact on the availability and usability of archival sources, and have enabled academic training in the use of literary manuscripts. Thus, even the most recent trends in the study of literary drafts are historically based on the infrastructures, practices and scholarly traditions derived from Romanticism.
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chlel.35.08pil
112
126
15
To be specified
15
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1.2.2. Russian traditions
Textology, Pushkin studies and the digital future
1
A01
Igor Pilshchikov
Pilshchikov, Igor
Igor
Pilshchikov
20
base text
20
creative history
20
holographs
20
layer-by-layer reconstruction
20
printed and digital facsimiles
20
textology
20
topographic transcription
01
An umbrella term that defines the Russian traditions of textual criticism, history of text, and editorial technique is “textology.” The interest in the author’s manuscripts arose in Russia in the pre-Romantic age. Nineteenth-century positivist scholars of Aleksandr Pushkin’s writings were the first to start publishing his holographs. Pushkin editions became a testing ground and a paragon for all other editions of Russian classics. In the late 1920s, ex-formalists Boris Tomashevsky and Sergei Bondi revised the pre-revolutionary approach to presenting a set of drafts and variants. Instead of topographic transcriptions advocated by the Pushkin Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, they developed the method of a layer-by-layer reproduction of literary autographs. Contemporary digital publication formats can effectively resolve this antinomy.
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chlel.35.09ant
127
140
14
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16
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1.2.3. Eastern European traditions
Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian literary drafts
1
A01
Mateusz Antoniuk
Antoniuk, Mateusz
Mateusz
Antoniuk
2
A01
Jirí Flaišman
Flaišman, Jirí
Jirí
Flaišman
3
A01
Michal Kosák
Kosák, Michal
Michal
Kosák
4
A01
Ágnes Major
Major, Ágnes
Ágnes
Major
5
A01
Martin Navrátil
Navrátil, Martin
Martin
Navrátil
6
A01
Dmytro Yesypenko
Yesypenko, Dmytro
Dmytro
Yesypenko
20
archives
20
Czech
20
genetic criticism
20
Hungarian
20
Polish
20
rough draft
20
Slovak and Ukrainian literature
01
This chapter refers to literature in five languages: Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian. Firstly, it presents the histories of Eastern European literary drafts. In this section answers to the following questions are delivered: from what time do the oldest surviving rough drafts date? How did the culture of archiving evolve? What impact did historical events have on the state of preservation of the documents? The focus then shifts to the issue of the genetic approach in Eastern European scholarship. The aim of this section is to discuss how creative writing processes were dealt with by different philological traditions. Finally, East European reception of <i>critique génétique</i> is presented.
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chlel.35.10egg
141
159
19
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17
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1.2.4. Anglophone traditions
Dealing with drafts of modern literary manuscripts
1
A01
Paul Eggert
Eggert, Paul
Paul
Eggert
20
anglophone scholarly editing
20
archival reporting
20
Cornell Yeats
20
draft manuscript
20
editorial theory
20
Emerson’s Journals
20
genetic criticism
20
genetic edition
20
reading
20
version
01
Spurred on by new editions of works of modern literature in which manuscript materials are often extant, editorial theory since the 1980s has been laying the groundwork for the wider introduction of a genetic perspective on the works of Anglophone authors. Resistance to the idea from the 1940s is traced. The editing of writers’ journals during the 1970s–1990s shows a hesitation to follow the brave lead of the Harvard edition of Emerson’s Journals in recording in-text cancellations and additions. Editors’ conceptions of the reader of their editions have evolved since 1950. The advent of the Cornell Wordsworth and Cornell Yeats editions broadened understanding of the editorial-archival function; the method has become accepted as the base-line responsibility of digital editors.
10
01
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chlel.35.11hen
160
173
14
To be specified
18
01
1.2.5. German traditions
Between author-centricity and dynamic texts
1
A01
Katrin Henzel
Henzel, Katrin
Katrin
Henzel
20
author-centricity
20
early Romanticism
20
genetic edition
20
Goethe
20
historical-critical edition
20
literary archive
20
Nachlass
20
nation building
20
textual growth
20
the canon
01
In German-speaking countries, scientific, poetological as well as political criteria have shaped literary archives, especially during the nineteenth century – with impact on their selection of manuscripts regarding authors, epochs and genres to the present day. The historical-critical edition and the genetic edition as one of its subtypes can be seen as a <i>product</i> of these circumstances and will be considered in this chapter to point out the varying role of literary drafts on the perception and reception of literary works. This must also include a critical examination of the German editorial tradition that – although a gradual change is emerging – still predominantly concentrates on canonical works.
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JB code
chlel.35.12joh
174
186
13
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19
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1.2.6. French traditions
Confronting the traces of creation
1
A01
Franz Johansson
Johansson, Franz
Franz
Johansson
20
autograph
20
avant-texte
20
codicology
20
creative process
20
digital media
20
edition
20
genetic criticism
20
invention
20
philology
20
public / non-public
01
Victor Hugo’s bequest of all his work documents to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1881 shook off a tradition characterised by a certain indifference to the manuscript in its material and historic existence. Despite some one-off undertakings, it was not until the 1960s that an original theory and a systematic method of examining manuscripts, and more particularly drafts in their various forms, was developed in France: genetic criticism’s concerns and procedures, in their intention to understand the gestation processes of a work through each of its material traces, have spread throughout Europe and the world, and have become essential in the field of textual criticism.
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chlel.35.13ita
187
201
15
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20
01
1.2.7. Italian tradition
From Humanism to authorial philology
1
A01
Paola Italia
Italia, Paola
Paola
Italia
20
archival will
20
authorial philology
20
authorial will
20
authorship
20
genetic criticism
20
Humanism
20
scartafacci
01
The history of genetic criticism in the Italian tradition starts with Humanism, and from Francesco Petrarch’s “Codice degli Abbozzi” (fourteenth century). This chapter traces the framework of this tradition, highlighting how, with the simple but revolutionary gesture of leaving even the ugliest copies of his own masterpieces – the so-called “scartafacci” – to posterity, Petrarch created a model of an intellectual, a champion of classicism, the “style to be imitated”. Petrarch’s model left a trace of the toil of writing, the labor limae, which is considered the secret of style. From Machiavelli to Guicciardini, from Ariosto to Tasso, the “authorial function” has delivered a model of conservation and philology. After the triumph of the “scartafacci”, two exemplary nineteenth-century cases (Manzoni and Leopardi) will be discussed, as well as the twentieth-century text production, in which the study of manuscripts, tormented by countless revisions, reveals a possible “grammar of corrections” and is flanked by crucial problems of authorship.
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chlel.35.14dio
202
213
12
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21
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1.2.8. Drafts on the Iberian Peninsula
1
A01
João Dionísio
Dionísio, João
João
Dionísio
20
author
20
blank spaces
20
draft
20
scribal hand
20
textual genetics
01
Previously unobserved in a global view, drafts belonging to Iberian literary and cultural traditions are here exploratorily approached in accordance with a wide sense of the term “draft”. The chapter is divided into four sections: following some preliminary remarks, several <i>desiderata</i> for a future history of drafts in the Iberian Peninsula are presented; the second section reflects upon the coincidence (or lack thereof) between intellectual property and scribal agency in the composition of drafts; the third is focused on the morphology and function of blank spaces in genetic materials; the conclusion discusses, and contests, the idea of the draft as an unsuitable transcription, arguing in turn for its status as a site where fluid authorial goals are enacted.
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chlel.35.15dou
214
227
14
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22
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1.2.9. Postcolonial traditions
Toward comparative genetic criticism through a Caribbean lens
1
A01
Rachel Douglas
Douglas, Rachel
Rachel
Douglas
20
Caribbean
20
Dany Laferrière
20
endangered literary archives
20
Frankétienne
20
Haiti
20
Haitian boatpeople
20
Kamau Brathwaite
20
postcolonial genetic criticism
20
rasanblaj (gathering/reassembling)
20
rewriting
01
This chapter discusses literary drafts in the context of postcolonial endangered archival situations. My aim is to examine how certain archival situations, particularly across the Caribbean region, have impacted writers’ creative processes, leading to a significant tradition of published books, which have a distinctive <i>manuscriptesque</i> aura. What will become clear is that these postcolonial writers and their works purposefully straddle and disrupt the old spatial boundaries separating Caribbean islands from one another, and from Europe, and North America. This chapter looks at comparative genetic criticism through a decolonial Caribbean lens. Such a comparative approach to postcolonial literary drafts from the region is apt because the Caribbean space remains balkanised along old colonial linguistic lines to this day.
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chlel.35.03
229
1
Section header
23
01
Chapter 1.3. Processual comparison
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chlel.35.16pur
229
240
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24
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1.3.1. Writer’s block
1
A01
Diane Purkiss
Purkiss, Diane
Diane
Purkiss
20
Ernest Hemingway
20
flow
20
J. R. R. Tolkien
20
manuscript
20
Milton
20
muse
20
trauma
20
writer’s block
20
writing process
01
This chapter explores writer’s block by analysing the rewards of the writing process and its causation using a mixture of behaviourism and neuroscience, in an effort to move beyond the idea that writing is about rational intent. In particular, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow is used to describe the pleasure available to writers and it is suggested that this in itself explains writing. A short section on the invocation to the Muse suggests that difficulties in composition occur throughout writing history. Through three case studies – John Milton, Ernest Hemingway, and J. R. R. Tolkien – the highly individual experience of writer’s block and its remedies are demonstrated.
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chlel.35.17sul
241
252
12
To be specified
25
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1.3.2. Revision
Rereading, reliving, rewriting
1
A01
Hannah Sullivan
Sullivan, Hannah
Hannah
Sullivan
20
creative writing
20
editing
20
Henry James
20
intentionality
20
Mansfield Park
20
manuscript
20
modernism
20
revision
20
revision history
20
typescript
20
writing pedagogy
01
Understood in its broadest sense, as the amelioration or improvement of an earlier textual state, revision is a universal compositional practice. At the same time, authors’ ideas about revision, their capacity for making changes, and the changes themselves are strongly influenced by both the material circumstances of writing and by broader cultural ideas about originality and the ontology of artworks. In addition, the study of revision informs very different intellectual disciplines and methodologies: creative writing pedagogy; editorial practice; traditional biographical criticism; and genetic criticism. This chapter provides a basic typology of different types of revision and comments on the complex types of evidence with which critics have to contend.
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chlel.35.18cor
253
267
15
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26
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1.3.3. Translation archives
Ontologies of the translation draft over time
1
A01
Anthony Cordingley
Cordingley, Anthony
Anthony
Cordingley
20
archives
20
critique génétique
20
genetic criticism
20
genetic translation studies
20
translation
20
translation history
01
This chapter details how archives containing literary translation drafts from the early modern period to the present supply evidence that can challenge conventional views of both translatorship and authorship. Three cases are explored in depth. First, two of the oldest known translation drafts in English, Samuel Ward’s (1572–1643) recently discovered draft of apocryphal text 1 <i>Esdras</i> (<i>Ezra</i>) and his partial draft of <i>Wisdom</i> 3–4.6 for the King James Bible provoke a new understanding of the ontology of the translation draft in this period. Second, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s unpublished self-translations of his poems into Italian for the Florentine Contessina, Teresa (Emilia) Viviani della Robbia cast his long poem <i>Epipsychidion</i> (1821) in a different light, revealing Shelley’s cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Third, the archives of the German translator of French <i>nouveau roman</i> authors Elmar Tophoven form a node of significance connecting literary figures and networks across Europe.
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chlel.35.04
269
1
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27
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Chapter 1.4. Generic comparison
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chlel.35.19mie
269
287
19
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28
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1.4.1. Poetry
The form and culture of poetic creation in English poetry manuscripts, 1600–2000
1
A01
Wim Van Mierlo
Mierlo, Wim Van
Wim Van
Mierlo
20
collecting
20
composition
20
creativity
20
draft
20
history of writing
20
inspiration
20
manuscript
20
modernist poetry
20
post-war poetry
20
romantic poetry
20
victorian poetry
01
Surveying the form and cultural significance of English poetry manuscripts in the period since 1600, this chapter looks at the unique features of the poetry manuscript. The first section discusses the authenticity value of poetry manuscripts as objects that were collected and exchanged. As gifts within domestic and literary networks, poetry manuscripts often held special value, representing the physical embodiment of friendship. The material proximity to the hand that created the poem forms the subject of the second section on creativity. Bringing to the fore conflicting attitudes towards the poet’s workshop, this section offers a reflection on the working of the imagination as manifested on the page. This finally leads to an investigation of the creative traces recorded on the manuscript, which analyses modes of composition as well as the poet’s own special relationship with their manuscript and how, as physical object, the manuscript impacts on the creative process.
10
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JB code
chlel.35.20cas
288
304
17
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29
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1.4.2. Drama
How the page becomes a stage
1
A01
Edith Cassiers
Cassiers, Edith
Edith
Cassiers
20
directing book
20
director’s theatre
20
drama drafts
20
genetic criticism
20
performance documentation
20
postdramatic theatre
20
Regiebuch
20
theatre notation
01
Theatre is often defined by its ephemerality, its fundamental presence in the here and now. Can we circumvent performance’s immediacy and study theatre through the genetic documents of its creative process? How are drama drafts related to other literary drafts? Can we use the same methodological techniques to study drama and literary drafts? In this chapter, I will first suggest a new definition for drama drafts and discuss the theoretical domain of genetic criticism as an analytical tool. In the second part, I will explain the differences between dramatic and other literary drafts, and connect them to the challenges of genetic criticism as research methodology. In the third and final part, I will propose an alternative genetic research model on the basis of the directing book as drama draft.
10
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JB code
chlel.35.21bel
305
319
15
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30
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1.4.3. Prose
Extended and distributed creativity in prose fiction
1
A01
Olga Beloborodova
Beloborodova, Olga
Olga
Beloborodova
20
AI
20
cognitive science
20
collaborative creativity
20
distributed cognition
20
extended mind
20
literary collaborations
20
manuscript research
20
prose fiction
20
writing studies
01
This chapter addresses and questions the seemingly solitary nature of prose writing, using two cognitive theories (extended mind and distributed cognition) that place cognition outside the boundaries of the human brain and advocate instead an inextricable connection between the brain and the world. Specifically, the tight coupling between the writing mind and literary drafts testifies to the crucial importance of these objects to the writing process, and a number of examples of creative collaborations (the Shelleys, Michael Field, Ilf and Petrov) demonstrate that creativity in prose writing is more often than not distributed and as such is not that different from those genres that are typically considered collaborative (such as drama). This distribution of cognition also applies to works that are not co-authored, as Beckett’s correspondence shows. The conclusion relates the chapter’s main ideas to the future of prose writing, namely the advent of AI and its impact on creativity.
10
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chlel.35.22got
320
333
14
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31
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1.4.4. <i>Kleine Prosa</i>
The poetics of the draft in prose sketches, prose poems, flash fiction and related small forms
1
A01
Dirk Göttsche
Göttsche, Dirk
Dirk
Göttsche
20
aphorism
20
emblem
20
essay
20
fragment
20
genre theory
20
literary modernism
20
microfiction
20
prose poem
20
prose sketch
20
small forms
01
This chapter explores the poetics of the draft in the transgeneric field of modern small prose forms from the aphoristic “fragments” of the Romantic period, through the prose sketches and prose poems of the nineteenth century, to microfiction (flash fiction), emblematic short prose, literary notes (<i>Aufzeichnungen</i>) and digital formats in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The German notion of <i>Kleine Prosa</i>, which moves beyond the narrow focus on narrative forms in the English term “short prose”, provides the conceptual framework. The chapter foregrounds German literature but also considers other European-language literatures in comparative perspective. The point of departure is the overlap between the poetics of these modernist short forms – which undercut established genre patterns, experiment with innovative modes of writing and invite reader participation in the construction of meaning – and the history of the draft, note-taking, rewriting in modern literary practice since the eighteenth century.
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chlel.35.05
335
1
Section header
32
01
Chapter 1.5. Editorial comparison
10
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chlel.35.23bry
335
352
18
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33
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1.5.1. Textual fluidity
Biography, history, and adaptive revision
1
A01
John Bryant
Bryant, John
John
Bryant
20
adaptive revision
20
Billy Budd
20
biography
20
collation
20
fluid-text editing
20
historicism
20
Melville Electronic Library
20
race
20
replay
20
source appropriation
20
version
01
Grounding biography and literary history in the phenomena of writing requires a theory of textual fluidity that unifies authorised and adapted versions. Such theorizing should also account for the anxieties of historicism in matters of textual evolution (Henry Adams) and of source appropriation as “replay” (Claude Monet). Melville’s late “adaptive revision” of William James’s naval history and of his own recollected biographical events in his writing of <i>Billy Budd</i> constitutes constitute an alternative historicism that enhances his “inside narrative” voice. Tracing adaptive revision from these personal and literary appropriations in <i>Billy Budd</i> to adaptations in translation and film versions of <i>Moby-Dick</i> expands the biographical scope of Melville’s writing as a modern phenomenon. The full range of adaptive revision is best represented in digital editing with a highly atomised database such as OCHRE that can accommodate asymmetric collation, revision sequencing and narration, and the interoperability of online editions.
10
01
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chlel.35.24gro
353
364
12
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34
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1.5.2. Pruning
Editorial intervention and its effects
1
A01
Tim Groenland
Groenland, Tim
Tim
Groenland
20
cutting
20
editing
20
interpretation
20
Jean Rhys
20
modernism
20
pruning
20
reception
20
revision
20
textual variance
01
Editorial intervention is often essential to a text’s development, and yet the work of literary editors is often obscured. This chapter examines some of the critical issues around the role of the editor, arguing for the importance of the editorial process and considering examples of textual development and critical issues resulting from it. Specifically, it analyses the editing of the ending of Jean Rhys’s <i>Voyage in the Dark</i> to demonstrate the way in which textual cutting can significantly impact a literary work’s development and reception; these kinds of cuts can echo throughout an author’s career in surprising ways.
10
01
JB code
chlel.35.25sut
365
377
13
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35
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1.5.3. Orthography. <hie> <i>rogue</i> glyphics
Spelling between manuscript and print
1
A01
Kathryn Sutherland
Sutherland, Kathryn
Kathryn
Sutherland
20
Charles Dickens
20
Jane Austen
20
John Clare
20
manuscript
20
printers’ manuals
20
Robert Burns
20
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20
speech forms
20
standardisation
20
Walter Scott
01
When it comes to orthography, there is no straightforward triumph of type technology over manuscript. If printing brought greater regularisation, it did so over centuries. Until at least 1900, spelling variation signified the flexibility available within public printed and private handwritten text. Examples in verse and prose from c.1600–1900 suggest how spelling is bound up with issues of readership and standard usage, on the one hand, and, on the other, of recording those forms that lie beyond print: dialect, slang, archaisms, phonetic rendering of speech forms, and more. Orthographic irregularity represents the world as multi-voiced, providing a rhythm for both eye and ear. Authors, publishers, and printers have all used spelling to censor or enable communication.
10
01
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chlel.35.26mcc
378
389
12
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36
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1.5.4. Punctuation
Dorothy Richardson, the long modernist novel, and the literary draft
1
A01
Scott McCracken
McCracken, Scott
Scott
McCracken
20
Dorothy Richardson
20
experiment
20
literary draft
20
modernism
20
punctuation
01
All literary drafts manifest the signs of their provisionality. For experimental writers, such as the pioneering modernist writer, Dorothy Richardson, who resist the illusion of the artwork as complete, the improvisatory nature of the draft is a strength, a quality the writer carries over to the published version. This chapter reads the manuscript of <i>Pointed Roofs</i>, the first “chapter-volume” of Richardson’s long modernist novel <i>Pilgrimage</i>, in order to examine three aspects of Richardson’s compositional method: first, its experimental nature, which includes a degree of improvisation; second, her innovative use of punctuation, ellipses, and compression; and third, the relationship between the Richardsonian sentence and the emergence of modernist prose at the beginning of the twentieth century.
10
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chlel.35.p2
391
1
Section header
37
01
Part 2. Beyond text
10
01
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chlel.35.06
393
1
Section header
38
01
Chapter 2.1. Material comparison
10
01
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chlel.35.27hon
393
409
17
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39
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2.1.1. Paper
1
A01
Andrew Honey
Honey, Andrew
Andrew
Honey
20
Jane Austen
20
literary drafts
20
manuscripts
20
paper
20
paper history
20
writing paper
01
This chapter uses Jane Austen as a case study to explore the roles that paper, the underlying support, play within literary drafts. It investigates whether her choice and use of paper within a relatively small surviving corpus reveal methods and habits of writing. It demonstrates the types of evidence that can be drawn by studying the physical marks and characteristics of paper. Examples show that much can be gleaned from careful characterisation and comparison of the physical features of any paper used for literary drafts. Paper might be thought a neutral carrier, but the conscious or unconscious choices of paper by a writer, coupled with their habits and preferences of use, leave material evidence independent of the written text.
10
01
JB code
chlel.35.28van
410
416
7
To be specified
40
01
2.1.2. Born-digital documents
1
A01
Isabelle Van Ongeval
Van Ongeval, Isabelle
Isabelle
Van Ongeval
20
born-digital texts
20
cross-disciplinary research
20
digital curation practices
20
digital forensics
20
literary archives
01
These are exciting times for literary archivists. Nowadays, a writer’s legacy presents itself as large chunks of hybrid and disrupted data, partly analogue and partly digital. This chapter reflects on the challenges faced by literary archivists in acquiring, managing, and unlocking born-digital archives of writers, publishers, and literary organisations. There is a real threat of gaps emerging in collections of literary archives, because of the hybrid way a writer writes in the twenty-first century, as well as the unpreparedness of archival institutions. Literary archives are in need of technical skills for dealing with born-digital content in many forms, from obsolete carriers to online content. Finally, they need to work on the writers’ awareness of the fragility of their digital content. Overall, there is a strong need for more and structural collaboration with IT professionals, academics, and the makers of literary archives in order to secure, manage, and unlock born-digital literary archives.
10
01
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chlel.35.29fle
417
432
16
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41
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2.1.3. Archiving practices
The preservation and loss of autograph English literary manuscripts
1
A01
Christopher Fletcher
Fletcher, Christopher
Christopher
Fletcher
20
archives
20
autograph
20
born-digital
20
collectors
20
culture
20
heritage
20
library
20
literary
20
manuscripts
01
The survival or loss of autograph literary manuscripts is considered, particularly in the context of British materials and drawing frequently but not exclusively upon the holdings of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A chronological approach demonstrates the accruing importance attached to manuscripts written in the hand of their authors by collectors, institutions, scholars, the public and other agents, including funders and legislators. Reference is made to recent developments in the area of joint acquisition and questions are raised about the future of the autograph manuscript in the digital age.
10
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chlel.35.07
435
1
Section header
42
01
Chapter 2.2. Conceptual comparison
10
01
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2.2.1. Metaphors for the writing process
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Dirk Van Hulle
Van Hulle, Dirk
Dirk
Van Hulle
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cognition
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genetic criticism
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manuscripts
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metaphors
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romantic genius
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writing process
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writing strategies
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writing studies
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This chapter discusses various metaphors that have been suggested as conceptual models by numerous authors in the past to try and understand aspects of their creative process and the roles of the literary draft. The question is whether they are all equally apt. By juxtaposing several of them, the aim is to investigate to what extent certain metaphors are forms of writers’ self-representation that may not always correspond with the reality of what is left in the drafts. These metaphors are organised in three sections, focusing respectively on questions of “Authorship” (ways of framing what it is to be a maker or creator), “Inspiration” (imagination, invention, discovery as cognitive phenomena) (Clark 1997), and “Perspiration” (writing strategies, tactics and techniques).
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2.2.2. Models for genetic criticism
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Daniel Ferrer
Ferrer, Daniel
Daniel
Ferrer
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creative writing
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genetic criticism
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modelling
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process vs product
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Genetic critics are faced with what scientists call an inverse problem: starting from the observed effects (the final work and all the available traces left in the course of the labour of creation), they want to reconstruct the process that produced these effects. The solution of such problems generally involves the production of models and their subsequent adjustment to the empirical data. More generally, models are used to provide us with a simplified representation of reality whenever the data is too rich and the factors involved are too complex to be directly apprehended. In our field, models can hardly be mathematical formulae governing sets of identified parameters; they are more likely to be analogies that help us to grasp the peculiar logic that is at work in the creative process. Some of these models are implicit in the work of genetic critics: it is preferable to make them explicit so as to be conscious of their limitations.
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Chapter 2.3. Intermedial comparison
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2.3.1. Film
Authorship, versions and revisions
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Tom Paulus
Paulus, Tom
Tom
Paulus
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Film as ontological and material object
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film authorship
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film distribution and recutting
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This chapter aims to test the saliency of textual or genetic criticism for film studies. My suggestions take two directions: on the one hand, I propose that the philological task of the genetic critic to compare different versions of a literary text, finds an equivalent in the job of the film preservationist. In a second move, I look at the problematic of creative control in an art rooted from the beginning in an industrial model. Considering the American “auteur” cinema of the 1970s, I argue that the filmmaker’s newly-won right of “final cut” led to endless revisions and the “modernist” sense that the “text” can never be finished.
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2.3.2. Television
From pre-production to programme-making and dissemination
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Jonathan Bignell
Bignell, Jonathan
Jonathan
Bignell
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archive
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audience
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BBC
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Doctor Who
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science fiction
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screenwriting
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script
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television
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the 1960s
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TV drama
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A focus on the details of how TV drama scripts were commissioned, edited and realised offers insight into the relationships between writers and television institutions. This study of the early years of the BBC’s popular science fiction series <i>Doctor Who</i> is based on archival documents from the 1960s and shows how the role of the screenwriter was negotiated in relation to the opportunities and constraints of format, genre, cost and intended audience, at a time of rapid and dynamic change in British television culture. The decisions about screenwriting analysed in this chapter affected how <i>Doctor Who</i> developed in the 60 years that followed, and also impacted how the BBC thought about its cultural and social mission of Public Service Broadcasting.
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2.3.3. Architecture
The culture of building
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Eireen Schreurs
Schreurs, Eireen
Eireen
Schreurs
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Lara Schrijver
Schrijver, Lara
Lara
Schrijver
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architecture
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building cultures
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cultural codes
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design process
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material culture
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visual analysis
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This chapter addresses architecture as a cultural and visual medium, in which the design process is typically hidden in office archives and the multiple media of design genesis. In modernist architecture, the architect was seen as a visionary genius and a semblance of “purity” was integral to understanding a building’s design. This stands in contrast to how buildings have historically come to be: it neglects the many actors and elements that “construct” the final project, from materials available to local building habits and from contractors to codes and regulations. Revisiting the design process from the perspective of genetic criticism allows a review of the multiple paths that are brought together in a final, working drawing from which the contractor can begin to build. This chapter addresses the pre-construction design phase from initial sketch to final plans in order to reveal how different media intervene in the thought process, and how building cultures express themselves in the result.
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2.3.4. Music
Sketching performance
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John Rink
Rink, John
John
Rink
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Chopin
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composition
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creative history
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music editions
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music manuscripts
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music scores
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music sketches
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musical notation
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performance
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This chapter begins by acknowledging the impossibility of capturing musical thought in notational form and by highlighting the concomitant provisionality of music scores. It then considers the creative input required of performers when they bring musical notation “to life” in sound and in time. This leads to a case study on the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin, for whom the act of notation posed innumerable difficulties not least because he continually reimagined and revised his musical ideas. The chapter as a whole thus challenges any assumptions we might have about the identity and stability of the Chopin work and of music more generally, while also raising thorny questions about the best means of representing music’s creative history in editions and performances themselves.
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2.3.5. Radio
Between text and sound
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Pim Verhulst
Verhulst, Pim
Pim
Verhulst
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Andrew Sachs
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BBC
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Caryl Churchill
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Dylan Thomas
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feature
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genetic criticism
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Harold Pinter
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radio drama
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radio play
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transmediality
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After contextualising the radio medium in relation to theatre, television and film, and then distinguishing between different types of radio drama, this chapter argues that radio plays are a hybrid (text/sound) art form, as opposed to a “purely acoustic” one, that needs to be researched from an archival perspective, which includes not only drafts, production scripts and recordings, but also ancillary materials such as letters and documents preserved at broadcasting services. In order to illustrate this point, it uses genetic criticism as a methodological framework and four case studies broadcast on the various networks of the BBC: Dylan Thomas’s <i>Under Milk Wood</i> (1954), Harold Pinter’s <i>A Slight Ache</i> (1959), Caryl Churchill’s <i>Identical Twins</i> (1968) and Andrew Sachs’s <i>The Revenge</i> (1978).
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Hans Walter Gabler
Gabler, Hans Walter
Hans Walter
Gabler
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