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Genetic Criticism and its Logics The Draft and the Text

Ferrer Daniel
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399539395
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
168

Forfatter
Ferrer Daniel
Oversetter
Bowlby Rachel

Biografisk notat

Daniel Ferrer is Professeur Emeritus (and former director) at the Institut des Textes Modernes et Manuscrits, Paris. He is one of the leading proponents of genetic criticism and the author of Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language (1990) and Genetic Joyce (2023). Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. Most recently, she is the author of Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024) and Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).

Genetic Criticism and its Logics The Draft and the Text

Ferrer Daniel
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This absorbing book, by one of the world’s leading exponents of genetic criticism, will dispel any idea that the study of writers’ and artists’ draft material is a dry and dusty topic. If you are going to read one book on genetic criticism, this virtuoso survey of its challenges and rewards should be it.

- Derek Attridge, University of York,

Genetic criticism is the study of authors' drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the course of the creative process, along the way to a final text. Daniel Ferrer's Genetic Criticism and its Logics: The Draft and the Text offers a variety of miniature chapters of argument and philosophy that serve to illuminate this controversial branch of literary criticism. Discussion moves from music to modernism, or from recipes to photography; Poe appears along with Ponge, and Delacroix not far from Hogarth. The book is meant for readers at any stage of the genetic journey from the keen to the curious, and from the not yet convinced to the seriously sceptical or dismissive. All of them, it is guaranteed, will find they are delighted as well as informed by Daniel Ferrer's writing. For the novice in criticism, too, this translation from the original French will open up new worlds of possible questions as well as a specific field of thinking.
Les mer
Daniel Ferrer’s stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.
List of Figures 1. Eppur si muove 2. Marey’s Cat and Moses’ Beard 3. The Counter-Model of ‘Fable’ 4. The Raven and the Beetle 5. Repetition vs. Invention: The Philological Counter-Model 6. Repetition and Invention: Picasso’s False Draft 7. Musical Score and Cookery Recipe 8. The Raven and the Parrot 9. The Art of Using up Leftovers 10. Exogenous and Endogenous Accidents: Joyce’s Ink Blot and Stendhal’s Fountain 11. The European Model 12. Emerging Structure and Path Dependency 13. Anamorphosis and Station Toilets 14. Chryselephantine Charlie Chaplin 15. Anti-Descriptivism and Retrospective Distribution 16. The Model of Models: The Avant-texte 17. The Aporias of the Avant-texte: The Shabby Gate and the Dripping Sketch 18. Ulysses’ Scars 19. Memories of the Context: The Clementis Effect (or Hat-Trick) 20. Freudian Enunciation and Scrambled Eggs with Truffles 21. Bathmology and Dialogism 22. A Marginalist Economy of Writing 23. Agrammaticalities and Diasystems 24. Dialogism and the Genetic Process of Films 25. Variants and Variations: The Beethoven Sonata and Hogarth’s Dog 26. Possible Worlds: Jupiter the Genetic Critic 27. Possible Worlds and Modal Logic 28. Worlds Compared and Worlds Stipulated 29. Textual Worlds and Fictive Worlds 30. Incomplete Worlds? 31. Enallages of Modality and Modal Realism 32. Necessary? 33. Accessibilities: The Symphony and the Telephone 34. Worldmaking Annotated List of the Models Bibliography Index
Les mer
Very short chapters offer self-contained nuggets for reflection, while also building towards an accumulation of knowledge as the book progresses

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This absorbing book, by one of the world’s leading exponents of genetic criticism, will dispel any idea that the study of writers’ and artists’ draft material is a dry and dusty topic. If you are going to read one book on genetic criticism, this virtuoso survey of its challenges and rewards should be it.

- Derek Attridge, University of York,

Genetic criticism is the study of authors' drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the course of the creative process, along the way to a final text. Daniel Ferrer's Genetic Criticism and its Logics: The Draft and the Text offers a variety of miniature chapters of argument and philosophy that serve to illuminate this controversial branch of literary criticism. Discussion moves from music to modernism, or from recipes to photography; Poe appears along with Ponge, and Delacroix not far from Hogarth. The book is meant for readers at any stage of the genetic journey from the keen to the curious, and from the not yet convinced to the seriously sceptical or dismissive. All of them, it is guaranteed, will find they are delighted as well as informed by Daniel Ferrer's writing. For the novice in criticism, too, this translation from the original French will open up new worlds of possible questions as well as a specific field of thinking.
Les mer
Daniel Ferrer’s stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.
List of Figures 1. Eppur si muove 2. Marey’s Cat and Moses’ Beard 3. The Counter-Model of ‘Fable’ 4. The Raven and the Beetle 5. Repetition vs. Invention: The Philological Counter-Model 6. Repetition and Invention: Picasso’s False Draft 7. Musical Score and Cookery Recipe 8. The Raven and the Parrot 9. The Art of Using up Leftovers 10. Exogenous and Endogenous Accidents: Joyce’s Ink Blot and Stendhal’s Fountain 11. The European Model 12. Emerging Structure and Path Dependency 13. Anamorphosis and Station Toilets 14. Chryselephantine Charlie Chaplin 15. Anti-Descriptivism and Retrospective Distribution 16. The Model of Models: The Avant-texte 17. The Aporias of the Avant-texte: The Shabby Gate and the Dripping Sketch 18. Ulysses’ Scars 19. Memories of the Context: The Clementis Effect (or Hat-Trick) 20. Freudian Enunciation and Scrambled Eggs with Truffles 21. Bathmology and Dialogism 22. A Marginalist Economy of Writing 23. Agrammaticalities and Diasystems 24. Dialogism and the Genetic Process of Films 25. Variants and Variations: The Beethoven Sonata and Hogarth’s Dog 26. Possible Worlds: Jupiter the Genetic Critic 27. Possible Worlds and Modal Logic 28. Worlds Compared and Worlds Stipulated 29. Textual Worlds and Fictive Worlds 30. Incomplete Worlds? 31. Enallages of Modality and Modal Realism 32. Necessary? 33. Accessibilities: The Symphony and the Telephone 34. Worldmaking Annotated List of the Models Bibliography Index
Les mer
Very short chapters offer self-contained nuggets for reflection, while also building towards an accumulation of knowledge as the book progresses

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399539395
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
168

Forfatter
Ferrer Daniel
Oversetter
Bowlby Rachel

Biografisk notat

Daniel Ferrer is Professeur Emeritus (and former director) at the Institut des Textes Modernes et Manuscrits, Paris. He is one of the leading proponents of genetic criticism and the author of Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language (1990) and Genetic Joyce (2023). Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. Most recently, she is the author of Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024) and Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).

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