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1. An Introduction to Genetic Narratology: Geneses of Narratives and Narratives of Geneses

Chapter of: Genetic Narratology: Analysing Narrative across Versions(pp. 1–16)

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Title1. An Introduction to Genetic Narratology
SubtitleGeneses of Narratives and Narratives of Geneses
ContributorDirk Van Hulle(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0426.01
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0426/chapters/10.11647/obp.0426.01
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightDirk Van Hulle;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-12-17
Long abstractThis article introduces the field of genetic narratology, combining scholarly methods and research interests from genetic criticism and narratology. Research in this field is concerned with, on the one hand the genesis of narratives and on the other hand the narrativization of literary genesis. The first part of the essay focuses not only on the narrated but also on the unnarrated (analysing an omitted passage in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy). The second part investigates how the writing process is often the object of narrativization. Due to numerous circumstances, certain elements of the ‘making-of’ are emphasized, magnified, exaggerated, others are obscured or forgotten, either on purpose or by accident. This narrativization of literary geneses is just as much the object of scrutiny in genetic narratology as the genesis of narratives. While narratology is often mainly concerned with the reception of literary texts, this article focuses on their production, opening up new research perspectives on the workings of the creative imagination as it is documented in manuscripts, notes, drafts and other traces of the writing process.
Page rangepp. 1–16
Print length16 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Dirk Van Hulle

(author)
Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at University of Oxford
Professorial Fellow at Jesus College at University of Oxford
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7066-6313

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford, director of the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET) and of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is director of the MLA award-winning Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive. org), series editor of the series ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’, editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies, and curator of the Bodleian exhibition Write Cut Rewrite (Oxford, Feb 2024–Jan 2025). His publications include Textual Awareness (2004), Modern Manuscripts (2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (2013, with Mark Nixon), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (2016), Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature (2022), and Write Cut Rewrite (2024, with Mark Nixon).

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