{"product_id":"genetic-criticism-texts-and-avant-textes-9780812237771","title":"Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough 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 \u003ci\u003eGenetic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenetic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jed Deppman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Material Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812237771","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43446848225417,"sku":"9780812237771","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7d1d2448-6703-4fcc-825f-9463f77c1879.jpg?v=1741683336","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/genetic-criticism-texts-and-avant-textes-9780812237771","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}