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Genetic Criticism and Its Logics - by Daniel Ferrer (Paperback)

Name: Genetic Criticism and Its Logics - by Daniel Ferrer (Paperback)
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 1009267648
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Genetic criticism is the study of authors' drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the course of the creative process, along the way to a final text.
Author(s): Daniel Ferrer
168 Pages
Literary Criticism, European

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Daniel Ferrer's stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.

Book Synopsis

Genetic criticism is the study of authors' drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the course of the creative process, along the way to a final text. Daniel Ferrer's Genetic Criticism and its Logics: The Draft and the Text offers a variety of miniature chapters of argument and philosophy that serve to illuminate this controversial branch of literary criticism. Discussion moves from music to modernism, or from recipes to photography; Poe appears along with Ponge, and Delacroix not far from Hogarth. The book is meant for readers at any stage of the genetic journey - from the keen to the curious, and from the not yet convinced to the seriously sceptical or dismissive. All of them, it is guaranteed, will find they are delighted as well as informed by Daniel Ferrer's writing. For the novice in criticism, too, this translation from the original French will open up new worlds of possible questions as well as a specific field of thinking.

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This absorbing book, by one of the world's leading exponents of genetic criticism, will dispel any idea that the study of writers' and artists' draft material is a dry and dusty topic. If you are going to read one book on genetic criticism, this virtuoso survey of its challenges and rewards should be it.--Derek Attridge, University of York

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W)

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 168

Genre: Literary Criticism

Sub-Genre: European

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Format: Paperback

Author: Daniel Ferrer

Language: English

Street Date: September 30, 2026

TCIN: 1009267648

UPC: 9781399539401

Item Number (DPCI): 247-49-7465

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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