scholarly journals Creative Concurrence. Gearing Genetic Criticism for the Sociology of Writing

Variants ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Dirk Van Hulle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Criticism

scholarly journals Lexical choices along the creative process of coc comparato

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Livia Sprizão de Oliveira ◽  
Edina Regina Panichi
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Feedback Cycle ◽  
The Impact

Lexicographical words represent things – physical or abstracts – and are also plenty of expressive shapes, which are socially built. The grammatical use of words disseminates denotative meanings and metaphorical effects that engage emotions. The context in which words are placed creates a feedback cycle between the sign and the psychic images that it evokes. Through the analysis of the manuscripts of the Brazilian dramatist, Doc Comparato, we shall observe the movements of experimentation and lexical choice along the creative process of his writing of the script Jamais (Never) - also called Calabar or A tribute to the treason. We are going to verify the changes on the effects of meaning by comparing the reviews applied to the text, following the author’s search for the grammatical shape that gives life to the idea. In order to analyze the metamorphosis of the writing process we shall use the fundaments of Genetic Criticism and the Stylistic to evaluate the results reached by the author – considering that a dramaturgical text is made to be staged and, for being so, must predict the impact of the sounds of words and also the actions that follow them.

scholarly journals This page will cry here for centuries… Słowacki, Yeats and the (Im)Materiality of the Text

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Mateusz Antoniuk
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Materiality Of The Text

This essay concerns the famous Polish Romantic poem written by Juliusz Słowacki. The close reading of the text leads me toward the genetics analysis of it’s first draft (which appears to be at once “lost” and “regained”) as well as evokes the meditation about the Słowacki’s philosophy of textual representation (which appears to be deeply ambiguous). My article is inspired by George Bornstein conception of textual materiality and by genetic criticism methodology. I also demonstrate the parallel between poem of Słowacki and lyric When You Are Old, written by W.B. Yeats.      

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Kinderman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This introductory chapter presents the “genetic criticism,” or critique génétique, as an approach to the study of the creative process. The term itself relates to the genesis of cultural works, as regarded in a broad and inclusive manner. The chapter applies this approach by examining how conditions for the production and reception of artworks can be regarded as “intensely ideological formations” in late nineteenth-century works by two influential composers from the European musical tradition: Brahms and Wagner. It first considers the conditions for the production of Brahms's pieces by taking note of his engagement with Beethoven's music and sketchbooks. In Wagner's case, the chapter focuses on issues of reception, particularly how his final drama, Parsifal, was promoted at Bayreuth after his death. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the succeeding chapters and the scope of the sources which this study draws from.

Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Jaurretche
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Creating Meaning

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake abounds with prayers from all traditions, and their echoes and cadences may be found on almost every page. Bringing together thinkers from antiquity, the Middle Ages, early Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book argues that Joyce views prayer as theory of language. It gives Joyce a verbal strategy for discussing immaterial things from which he composes his book of the night: image, magic, dreams, and speech. Beginning with the second-century theologian Origen’s treatise On Prayer, as well as the eighteenth-century philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico’s theories of the formation of language and culture, the book argues that Joyce’s use of language as prayer works progressively across the four sections of the novel, creating meaning from its otherwise discrete and associative arrangement. Since Plato, the culture has recognized that religious utterances possess unique characteristics, yet analytical philosophy and literary scholarship have not produced a focused study of prayer. And although brilliant and essential work in the field of genetic criticism shows us Joyce’s building blocks and methods of creation, no book suggests why Finnegans Wake follows the finished order it does. This work meets those needs.

Revision and Self-Citation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Stabler
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Manuscript Page ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
Reading Texts

Despite recent claims that serious poetic revision only started during the modernist period, most Romantic-period manuscripts yield evidence of sustained and sometimes obsessive revision, which could take place over a matter of hours, days, or years. This chapter surveys different editorial approaches to authorial revision and the vexed question of whether we should base our reading texts on the ‘first finished’ version or the author’s last ever set of revisions—the question which has haunted William Wordsworth’s editors for decades. After a brief discussion of the advantages of combining genetic criticism of the manuscript page with an awareness of biographical, social, and literary contexts, the chapter turns to public-domain manuscripts to analyse three examples of manuscript revision of poetry by Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley.

The Genesis of Texts: Planning and Interior Language

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Olga Anokhina
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Linear Logic ◽  
Genetic Approach ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Theory Of Language

Abstract: Based upon the observation of writers’ manuscripts, I set out to define the logic of textualization implemented during the writing process. I address in particular the question of the texts’ planning, as well as that of their progressive transformation within the restrictions of textual coherence which weigh upon the writer from the onset of translating. Moreover, I examine the interest of the notion of interior language for researches in the domains of genetic criticism and textual linguistics. I shall compare three approaches: the genetic approach of writers’ manuscripts, the modeling of written production according to cognitive psychology and the theory of language as explained by the Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotski. Studying the working documents of writers will allow us to understand the logic of textualization as it appears during the transformations of different language forms. We will note in particular that different stages of written production defined by cognitive psychology as conceptual planning, translating (textualization) and reviewing are intertwined and are ruled by a non-linear logic of production. We shall see that if translating occurs very early, even during the stage of planning, conversely the process of conceptualization is constantly present.

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