Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson Contributor(s): Bushell, Sally (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813927749 ISBN-13: 9780813927749 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.7 |
LCCN: 2008033600 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Text as Process is about the literary work before it becomes a completed work of art. It is concerned with draft materials, with the manuscripts that constitute text in a state of process. What is text as process? And what should we, as readers, try to do with it? Bushell's aim in Text as Process is to develop a research method for the study of compositional material. Although she draws on an international context--mainly French and German traditions--for current approaches to textual criticism, hers is the first book to apply a new form of critical analysis to authors in the Anglo-American tradition. Bushell revisits issues of intention within process and makes this the center of her new approach, employing "case studies" of the work of three major nineteenth-century poets: Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson. She applies her methodology to each writer in different ways, allowing for cross-comparison as well as the recognition of individual distinctiveness in creativity. In doing so, Bushell demonstrates the need for a unique hermeneutics in relation to the making of the literary work of art. The author concludes with a philosophical account of the status and meaning of the literary work as it comes into being. |