Genetic Criticism

Jed Deppman teaches comparative literature and English at Oberlin College and has written on Flaubert, Valery, Joyce, Dickinson, and other writers. Daniel Ferrer is Director of Research at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language and coeditor of Poststructuralist Joyce, Pourquoi la critique genetique? Methodes, theories, and the ongoing "Finnegans Wake" Notebooks at Buffalo project. Michael Groden is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of "Ulysses" in Progress, general editor of The James Joyce Archive, and coeditor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.

"A valuable introduction to the possibilities and perspectives opened up by the study of literary manuscripts and will leave readers curious to discover more about this important and growing field."--"Romanic Review"

Editors' Note1. Introduction: A Genesis of French Genetic Criticism2. Genetic Criticism: Origins and Perspectives—Louis Hay3. Psychoanalytic Reading and the Avant-texte—Jean Bellemin-Noël4. Toward a Science of Literature: Manuscript Analysis and the Genesis of the Work—Pierre-Marc de Biasi5. Flaubert's "A Simple Heart," or How to Make an Ending: A Study of the Manuscripts—Raymonde Debray Genette6. With a Live Hand: Three Versions of Textual Transmission (Chateaubriand, Montaigne, Stendhal)—Jacques Neefs7. Genetic Criticism and Cultural History: Zola's Rougon-Macquart Dossiers—Henri Mitterand8. Paragraphs in Expansion (James Joyce)—Daniel Ferrer and Jean-Michel Rabaté9. Still Lost Time: Already the Text of the Recherche—Almuth Grésillon10. Proust's "Confession of a Young Girl": Truth or Fiction?—Catherine Viollet11. Auto-Genesis: Genetic Studies of Autobiographical Texts—Philippe Lejeune12. Hypertext—Memories—Writing—Jean-Louis LebraveIndexAcknowledgments