The manuscripts of modern writers are a labyrinth, but they have become an exciting new destination for literary scholarship. In this lively, lucid and original study, Finn Fordham looks at the draft manuscripts of six great modernist writers - Hopkins, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce and Woolf - to compare their variety of writing processes. INDICE: Introduction; Part I: Critical Frameworks; 1: Texts and Selves in Process; 2: The Self in Modernism and Modernist Studies; 3: Descartes and Heidigger: Overlooking Drafts, Erasing Process; Part II: Genetic Explorations; 4: Hopkins and Compression; 5: Yeats and Selection; 6: Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness: 'Doubling and Doubling Back; 7: Forster's A Passage to India: Hollowing Out; 8: Joyce's Ulysses and Multiplying Personalities; 9: Woolf's The Waves and Classes of Writing; Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956940-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés