| Description |
349 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Textual criticism, the history of revision, and genetic reading -- Henry James's perfectionism: problems of substitution -- Excision and textual waste -- Joyce and the illogic of addition -- "I am dead": autobiography revisited -- Revision, late modernism, and digital texts |
| Summary |
Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting from the modernist period. Examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and others, she shows how rewriting shapes literary style, and how the impulse to touch up can go too far |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- Criticism, Textual
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English literature -- 20th century -- Criticism, Textual
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Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries
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Intertextuality
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Authorship
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Editing
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| LC no. |
2012042986 |
| ISBN |
9780674073128 (alk. paper) |
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