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  • What is Authorial Philology?

    A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction ... Read more

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  • Genetic Narratology

    Analysing Narrative across Versions

    Genetic Narratology is the first full-length volume to merge genetic criticism with narratology, offering an innovative approach to understanding literature. By examining the creative process behind literary works through drafts, manuscripts and revisions, this book reveals how narratives are shaped in real time.Through diverse case studies—from Charlotte Brontë to Stephen King—this collection ... Read more

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  • Genetic Criticism

    Tracing Creativity in Literature

    In Genetic Criticism, Dirk Van Hulle introduces the study of creative processes to an Anglophone audience. As a method in the study of literary writing processes, genetic criticism is also a reading strategy. The idea behind this book is to introduce this strategy to a broader audience, from interested readers and graduate students to early career researchers and literary critics. In literary ... Read more

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  • Textual Awareness

    A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann

    Series series Editorial Theory And Literary Criticism
    Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and relates these to Anglo-American, French, and German theories of text. By ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This Companion considers Beckett's lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, ... Read more

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  • Beckett and Modernism

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing ... Read more

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  • Beckett/Philosophy

    This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings ... Read more

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  • James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'

    Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments

    Series series Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
    The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk ... Read more

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    Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn

    Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism.Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to “find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography,” his battles ... Read more

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  • On Humour

    Series series Thinking in Action
    Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when ... Read more

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  • Differentials

    Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetryMarjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Narratology

    An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative formsnarratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the fieldhow ... Read more

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