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Textual Awareness: A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Dirk Van Hulle
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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 relating theory to practice, this comparative study reveals the links between literary and textual criticism.
A key issue in both textual criticism and the so-called crisis of the novel is the tension between the finished and the unfinished. After a theoretical examination of the relationship between genetic and textual criticism, Dirk Van Hulle uses the three case studies to show how?at each stage in the writing process?the text still had the potential of becoming something entirely different; how and why these geneses proceeded the way they did; how Joyce, Proust, and Mann allowed contingencies to shape their work; how these authors recycled the words of their critics in order to inoculate their works against them; how they shaped an intertextual dimension through the processing of source texts and reading notes; and how text continually generated more text.
Van Hulle's exploration of process sheds new light on the remarkable fact that so many modernist authors protected their manuscripts, implying both the authors' urge to grasp everything and their awareness of the dangers of their encyclopedic projects. Textual Awareness offers new insights into the artificiality of the artifact?the novel?that are relevant to the study of literary modernism in general and the study of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann in particular.
A key issue in both textual criticism and the so-called crisis of the novel is the tension between the finished and the unfinished. After a theoretical examination of the relationship between genetic and textual criticism, Dirk Van Hulle uses the three case studies to show how?at each stage in the writing process?the text still had the potential of becoming something entirely different; how and why these geneses proceeded the way they did; how Joyce, Proust, and Mann allowed contingencies to shape their work; how these authors recycled the words of their critics in order to inoculate their works against them; how they shaped an intertextual dimension through the processing of source texts and reading notes; and how text continually generated more text.
Van Hulle's exploration of process sheds new light on the remarkable fact that so many modernist authors protected their manuscripts, implying both the authors' urge to grasp everything and their awareness of the dangers of their encyclopedic projects. Textual Awareness offers new insights into the artificiality of the artifact?the novel?that are relevant to the study of literary modernism in general and the study of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann in particular.
Dirk Van Hulle is Assistant Professor of English and German Literature, University of Antwerp.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Abbreviations and Transcription Conventions
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Introduction
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Part I. Traditions
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Chapter 1. Editionswissenschaft
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Chapter 2. Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing
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Chapter 3. Édition Critique and Critique Génétique
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Chapter 4. Interactions: Textual Nominalism and Editorial Realism
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Part II. Transmissions
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Chapter 5. Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temp perdu
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Chapter 6. James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
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Chapter 7. Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
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Part III. Transitions
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Chapter 8. Comparative Genetics: “a world of differents”
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Chapter 9. Conclusion: “Allspace in a Notshall”
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2004
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-11341-5 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02495-7 (ebook)