Genetic criticism and its logics : the draft and the text /

"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. [It] offers a variety of miniature chapters of argument and philosophy that serve to illuminate this controver...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferrer, Daniel (Author)
Other Authors: Bowlby, Rachel, 1957- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:In English, translated from French.
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Eppur si muove
  • Marey's Cat and Moses' Beard
  • The Counter-Model of 'Fable'
  • The Raven and the Beetle
  • Repetition vs. Invention: The Philological Counter-Model
  • Repetition and Invention: Picasso's False Draft
  • Musical Score and Cookery Recipe
  • The Raven and the Parrot
  • The Art of Using up Leftovers
  • Exogenous and Endogenous Accidents: Joyce's Ink Blot and Stendhal's Fountain
  • The European Model
  • Emerging Structure and Path Dependency
  • Anamorphosis and Station Toilets
  • Chryselephantine Charlie Chaplin
  • Anti-Descriptivism and Retrospective Distribution
  • The Model of Models: The Avant-texte
  • The Aporias of the Avant-texte: The Shabby Gate and the Dripping Sketch
  • Ulysses' Scars
  • Memories of the Context: The Clementis Effect (or Hat-Trick)
  • Freudian Enunciation and Scrambled Eggs with Truffles
  • Bathmology and Dialogism
  • A Marginalist Economy of Writing
  • Agrammaticalities and Diasystems
  • Dialogism and the Genetic Process of Films
  • Variants and Variations: The Beethoven Sonata and Hogarth's Dog
  • Possible Worlds: Jupiter the Genetic Critic
  • Possible Worlds and Modal Logic
  • Worlds Compared and Worlds Stipulated
  • Textual Worlds and Fictive Worlds
  • Incomplete Worlds?
  • Enallages of Modality and Modal Realism
  • Necessary?
  • Accessibilities: The Symphony and the Telephone
  • Worldmaking