This volume introduces English speakers to genetic criticism,
arguably the most important critical movement in France today. In
recent years, French literary scholars have been exploring the
interpretive possibilities of textual history, turning manuscript
study into a recognized form of literary criticism. They have
clearly demonstrated that manuscripts can be used for purposes
other than establishing an accurate text of a work. Although its
raw material is a writer's manuscripts, genetic criticism owes more
to structuralist and poststructuralist notions of textuality than
to philology and textual criticism. As Genetic Criticism
demonstrates, the chief concern is not the "final" text but the
reconstruction and analysis of the writing process. Geneticists
find endless richness in what they call the "avant-texte": a
critical gathering of a writer's notes, sketches, drafts,
manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and correspondence. Together, the
essays in this volume reveal how genetic criticism cooperates with
such forms of literary study as narratology, linguistics,
psychoanalysis, sociocriticism, deconstruction, and gender theory.
Genetic Criticism contains translations of eleven essays, general
theoretical analyses as well as studies of individual authors such
as Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Zola, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, and
Montaigne. Some of the essays are foundational statements, while
others deal with such recent topics as noncanonical texts and the
potential impact of hypertext on genetic study. A general
introduction to the book traces genetic criticism's intellectual
history, and separate introductions give precise contexts for each
essay.
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