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Genetic criticism is a literary analysis approach that examines the development and evolution of a text through its drafts, manuscripts, and authorial notes. It focuses on the creative process and the historical context of a work, revealing how various influences shape its final form.

This article takes the issue of transfers of Polish literature literally-as the physical transfer of writers' archives from place to place, to archives located in different countries and on different continents. Aleksander Wat's legacy is...more

This article takes the issue of transfers of Polish literature literally-as the physical transfer of writers' archives from place to place, to archives located in different countries and on different continents. Aleksander Wat's legacy is treated as a synecdoche of the fate of the archives of other émigré writers, such as Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert or Witold Gombrowicz. These considerations are complemented by the presentation of archival typescripts and manuscripts, as well as a never-published transcript of a conversation between Ola and Andrzej Wat, the then heirs to the legacy of the author of Mój wiek [My Age], and the stakeholders of institutions such as the Museum of Literature in Warsaw, the Ossolineum Library in Wrocław or the Polish Library in Paris (Jacek Trznadel, Krzysztof Rutkowski and Marek Prokop, among others), who debated in the 1980s about the future of the archive. The juxtaposition between the conversation, held under specific political conditions, and the further fate of the archive is interesting. This very specific issue then becomes a trigger for a more general reflection on the history of Polish archives-doomed to these transfers-in a situation of permanent historical uncertainty. It seems that the fate of our archives reflects the uncertainty of the fate of the entire nation.

The article, titled "The Influential Worlds in the Development of the Artwork: History of Society, History of Art, History of the Artist," aims to introduce a comprehensive model for the developmental criticism of an artwork. The paper...more

The article, titled "The Influential Worlds in the Development of the Artwork: History of Society, History of Art, History of the Artist," aims to introduce a comprehensive model for the developmental criticism of an artwork.

The paper achieves this by adopting a psychoanalytic perspective based on Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious. The authors propose that the creative process is the product of the artist's simultaneous accumulation of and interaction with three distinct histories:

The History of the Community/Society: This history shapes the collective conscious and collective unconscious of the artist. Its influence is analyzed using concepts such as Carl Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes, and Georg Lukács's theory of social consciousness (false consciousness and self-consciousness).

The History of Art: This dimension reveals itself through intertextual readings and represents the artist's conscious adaptation or unconscious absorption of elements and styles from past artistic traditions. This influence is examined using Gérard Genette's theory of Transtextuality (Intertextuality and Hypertextuality) and Harold Bloom's theory of the Anxiety of Influence.

The Artist's Personal History: This history is responsible for forming the artist's individual conscious and subconscious, playing a crucial role in establishing the "individuality" of the work. The paper suggests that this personal influence can be investigated by studying the artist's personal life (especially childhood), private writings, and non-artistic activities.

By considering how each of these three histories influences the work through both the conscious and unconscious mind of the artist, the article provides a detailed, structured framework for understanding the developmental process of art.

En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis del Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT), un archivo digital que alberga la colección fotográfica y documental más relevante producida y administrada por la comunidad travesti y trans de...more

En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis del Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT), un archivo digital que alberga la colección fotográfica y documental más relevante producida y administrada por la comunidad travesti y trans de Argentina. El artículo se propone describir la historia y la organización del AMT, resaltando su origen en las luchas de la propia comunidad y su enfoque en las imágenes, así como analizarlo a partir de las problemáticas y potencialidades de la recontextualización de los documentos archivados en un entorno virtual, por un lado, y la producción de memorias, por otro. En este estudio de caso se aplicaron los métodos cualitativos de la observación, realizada mayoritariamente en línea, y las entrevistas. Asimismo, se analizaron las escenas de consignación y domiciliación del archivo. Los principales resultados indican que el AMT se constituyó como parte del reconocimiento de la comunidad travesti y trans en el marco de sus luchas y reivindicaciones, cuyo acervo se basa en las imágenes y el acceso en línea. Además, se advierte que se transformó en un productor de la memoria colectiva de la comunidad. Se concluye que el AMT opera a partir del derecho de mirada, problematizando el acceso y la circulación de imágenes y memorias. Además, se reafirma su condición de archivo instituyente en contraposición a los archivos tradicionales. Por último, el AMT interrumpe las cronologías políticas, presenta cuerpos, historias y memorias diversas, y desafía el orden del discurso que organiza las narrativas y las imágenes.

Presentation delivered via webinar to an online and local audience in Perth, Western Australia hosted by the Dante Alighieri Society of Western Australia. Presentation available via this link. My contribution to this celebration of Dante...more

Presentation delivered via webinar to an online and local audience in Perth, Western Australia hosted by the Dante Alighieri Society of Western Australia. Presentation available via this link. My contribution to this celebration of Dante and his Comedy and what they mean to contemporary Australia grows out of my experience of teaching Dante at university in recent years. A bold, some said 'folle', experiment saw me teach the whole Divine Comedy in a single semester, which in Australian universities these days has been whittled down to ten weeks. Student response was positive in so many ways. Grasping the outline of Dante's whole journey and vision allows the reader to approach several troubling details in an authentic way and to make the story their own.

As has often been remarked, writing was vital in Cicero’s ambitious project of self-fashioning and the canonization of his oratory. Through writing, Cicero was able to overcome the problems associated with his novitas and to transform his...more

As has often been remarked, writing was vital in Cicero’s ambitious project of self-fashioning and the canonization of his oratory. Through writing, Cicero was able to overcome the problems associated with his novitas and to transform his oratory into a paradigm by constructing texts as replacements of his embodied presence. This paper complicates constructionist approaches towards Cicero’s self-fashioning by reflecting on Cicero’s self-citing from his poetic texts in his theological trilogy. What makes citational practices compelling is how they affect the citing agent’s subjectivity through dynamic processes of assimilation and distancing triggered by the replication. Methodologically, the complexity of these processes unsettles the possibility of approaching the citational episode as the expression of a single, self-contained individual.
Matters get even more complicated when agents like Cicero cite themselves through other figures and include a variety of remarks and observations along with their citation (see Balbus in the De natura deorum and Quintus in the De divinatione). My analysis reveals that each bit of text cut out from one work and inlaid into another contains manifold links to the original context, to other textual bits, to Cicero’s past and present, to other agents, and to the new text, simultaneously. What this means from a subjective point of view is that our textual Cicero does not emerge as a unitary identity but as a key node of transactions constituted by multiple realities and subjectivities. This multiplicity frustrates any attempt to recompose Cicero and his existence into a neat puzzle; however, self-citing creates a space where the subjectivities constituted by their relationship with the citation come to be condensed into textual substances. Ultimately, Cicero’s texts are less a straightforward replacement of his embodied presence than an emotionally dense “remnant” of his attempts to salvage a world going under.

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or...more

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

This article, after establishing the importance of James Joyce in the early career of Jack Kerouac, explores the influence of Joyce’s water-centric ecopoetic on Kerouac’s own after 1949, the year of his “Rain and Rivers” notebook. It will...more

This article, after establishing the importance of James Joyce in the early career of Jack Kerouac, explores the influence of Joyce’s water-centric ecopoetic on Kerouac’s own after 1949, the year of his “Rain and Rivers” notebook. It will show through questions of topography and toponymy how Kerouac pushes territorial and linguistic frontiers via the encounters of numerous rivers, bearing many names in different languages, whose accretive accumulation will eventually reach the depths of the “Sea,” the title of the poem at the end of Big Sur, echoing the circular structure of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. It will also attempt to show how Kerouac creates his own flood myth, liquifying, after Joyce, the English language through the exploration of epiphanic stream of consciousness writing and complex plurilingual strategies. Excerpts from Kerouac’s exploratory and experimental water writing will be examined through an intertextual reading of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

This article aims to provide a general overview of the material characteristics of the manuscripts constituting Fernando Pessoa’s unpublished work The Duke of Parma and the typology of autograph interventions that can be observed....more

This article aims to provide a general overview of the material characteristics of
the manuscripts constituting Fernando Pessoa’s unpublished work The Duke of
Parma and the typology of autograph interventions that can be observed. Analysis
of the piece’s genesis will reveal valuable information on Pessoa’s creative modus
operandi, while also raising important questions in terms of editorial treatment,
given, for example, the frequent presence of alternative variants on which the
author never made a definitive decision, or ambiguous authorial indications
concerning the ordering of the textual content. Thus, a critical-genetic reflection
on the manuscripts of this unpublished project represents a crucial stage in the
future development of editorial and critical work on the tragedy.

Estabelecendo como premissa fundamental a ideia de que o texto literário não é um documento cristalizado, cujo aspeto se fixa no momento da sua publicação, mas antes, uma obra in fieri, pretende-se traçar, no presente trabalho, a história...more

Estabelecendo como premissa fundamental a ideia de que
o texto literário não é um documento cristalizado, cujo aspeto se
fixa no momento da sua publicação, mas antes, uma obra in fieri,
pretende-se traçar, no presente trabalho, a história genética do poe-
ma «Ella canta, pobre ceifeira», de Fernando Pessoa, publicado pela
primeira vez em 1916, na revista Terra Nossa.
O processo genético do texto apresenta uma série de especificidades
que já no passado suscitaram grande interesse para o desenvolvi-
mento de estudos de natureza crítico-genética: se considerarmos a
data de redação do manuscrito, 1914, e a data da segunda, e última,
publicação da obra, 1924, notamos estar na presença de um percurso
genético que se estendeu por um período de, ao menos, 10 anos.
Adicionalmente, o processo de composição da obra não terminou com a sua segunda publicação: Fernando Pessoa introduziu algu-
mas variantes alternativas na página do exemplar pessoal da revista
Athena em que o poema tinha sido publicado em 1924.
Dada a complexidade e a extensão da sua génese, o poema «Ella
canta, pobre ceifeira» representa um caso exemplar para o estudo
dos processos criativos subjacentes à criação poética em Fernando
Pessoa. As variações que o texto sofreu durante o seu percurso ge-
nético serão analisadas tendo em conta as fases mais significativas
do desenvolvimento da pessoalidade artística do poeta e os traços
peculiares do seu usus scribendi, confrontando as variantes obser-
váveis no manuscrito do poema com variantes análogas observáveis
na génese de outros textos do autor.

Manuel Puig. Ocaso de una vida, sobrevida en el archivo es un ensayo crítico que indaga en las formas en que, tras la muerte del escritor, su obra y su figura adquieren nuevas dimensiones de lectura a partir de la potencia de su archivo...more

Manuel Puig. Ocaso de una vida, sobrevida en el archivo es un ensayo crítico que indaga en las formas en que, tras la muerte del escritor, su obra y su figura adquieren nuevas dimensiones de lectura a partir de la potencia de su archivo personal. El libro explora escenas y materiales que, al ser revisitados, hacen audibles voces antes silenciadas y permiten concebir la escritura de Puig desde la perspectiva de su “sobrevida” en los documentos, papeles y huellas que dejó. La reflexión sobre el archivo se convierte así en un espacio de diálogo con el autor ausente, un modo de interrogar qué nos dice Puig desde ese “más allá” que se abre en cada gesto de abrir una caja y volver a mirar sus restos materiales.

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CIAC invites submissions for the second International Creation Processes Conference, to be held on December 4th and 5th, in Faro, at the University of Algarve, under the theme "Interactions between research and creation". The CIAC...more

CIAC invites submissions for the second International Creation Processes Conference, to be held on December 4th and 5th, in Faro, at the University of Algarve, under the theme "Interactions between research and creation".

The CIAC International Creation Processes Conference is an opportunity to bring together artists and researchers to reflect on Creation Processes across the transversality of practices, materialities, procedures, methods, and languages that constitute up this expanding field of study.

CIAC has been intensifying its research and initiatives in the area of Creation Processes, especially since the beginning of its partnership with the Creation Processes Research Group at PUC-SP (2019), an institution with more than 30 years of experience dedicated to research in this field. Results of this Portugal-Brazil partnership include not only the conference but also: the CIAC Creation Processes Collection (2022), the Master’s in Creation Processes at the University of Algarve (2023), and the Postgraduate Program in Creation Processes at PUC-SP (2025).

Reflecting on the Interactions between research and creation becomes increasingly necessary when theory places itself at the intersection between knowledge emerging from practice and the desire to propose new knowledge from that foundation.

In recent years, several higher education programs have been created to host projects at the intersection of research and creation, such as the PhD in Digital Media-Art (UAlg/UAb), the Master’s in Creation Processes (UAlg), and the Postgraduate Program in Creation Processes (PUC-SP), among other partner programs of this conference.

Creation, a concept that long ago escaped the boundaries of the artistic field and assumed a central role in all sectors of contemporary life, is vital for artists – though not only for them – and can contribute to current and sensitive investigations that allow us to act better in and upon the world. To create and to offer others the possibility to create is certainly one of the ways of resisting the automatisms of gesture and thought that mark our society.

Investigating ways of de-automating our gestures and thoughts, by opening and discussing Creation Processes in different areas, is a course of action that brings ethics and aesthetics closer together within creation and research practices.
In this regard, universities play a fundamental role by fostering and advancing these intersections and the projects that emerge from this desire for confluence, also within the academic space.

Our second edition of the Conference (2025) seeks to broaden these and other discussions and therefore invites researchers, artists, and creators in general to submit paper proposals addressing "Interactions between research and creation", around (but not limited to) the following subtopics:

• Theories of artistic creation and their poetics
• Materialities and procedures of artistic creation
• Reception, co-creation, interactivity, and shared creations
• Culture, memory, and archives of creation
• Research methodologies in creation processes
• Poetics of research
• Ethics and politics of creation
• Decolonial and anti-racist practices of creation and research
• Creation, representativity, and repair
• Sustainability and ecologies of creation
• Literacy, educational practices, and creation processes
• Creation processes and AI tools
• Digital, generative poetics and hacker practices
• Practices of artivism and digital artivism
• Contributions of creation processes to climate challenges
• Feminism, gender, and intersectionality in creation processes

Abstracts must be between 200 and 300 words and submitted through the Submission Form by October 5th, via the Conference website.

The Conference also welcomes submissions for Thematic Panels (up to 5 presenters); Archive Exhibitions (as part of a paper or panel); and Workshop Proposals.

The anarchistic and apocalyptic vein in Canadian cinema, and even in the larger context of Canadian art in general, takes a particular turn with the films of David Cronenberg. Such early Cronenberg films as Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977)...more

The anarchistic and apocalyptic vein in Canadian cinema, and even in the larger context of Canadian art in general, takes a particular turn with the films of David Cronenberg. Such early Cronenberg films as Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977) betray an almost prurient desire for the destruction of bourgeois social harmony and the annihilation of patriarchal social relations in the context of apocalypse. Even Cronenberg's earliest experimental films such as Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970) make use of post-apocalyptic settings in building towards his more explicitly apocalyptic early commercial films to explore what might be identified as specifically anarchist social considerations. However, while the themes of anarchism and apocalypse permeate almost all of Cronenberg's works, these are almost universally overlooked in favour of traditional analyses of his 'Canadian weirdness' or his unique brand of body horror. This article looks back to the origins of Cronenberg's avant-garde anarchist-apocalyptic sensibilities to begin to recover their recognition in scholarship.

This article aims to use the approach of Genetic Translation Studies to make the work of literary translators visible. Drawing on two case studies on the French translations of novels by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, I show how...more

This article aims to use the approach of Genetic Translation Studies to make the work of literary translators visible. Drawing on two case studies on the French translations of novels by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, I show how translation archives can help retrace different phases of the translation process. The private archives of translators Lise Chapuis and Bernard Comment include annotated typescripts, notebooks and sheet notes. Analyzing them allows us to glimpse hidden aspects of the translation process that are related to how choices evolve to fit with a precise translation strategy, as well as the translator's personal understanding and interpretation of a narrative.

Resumen: Este artículo explora de qué manera el interés de Federico García Lorca por la lírica popular y tradicional facilitó la incursión del poeta en el estilo "vanguardista", bajo el cual se suele identificar la lírica de Poeta en...more

Resumen: Este artículo explora de qué manera el interés de Federico García Lorca por la lírica popular y tradicional facilitó la incursión del poeta en el estilo "vanguardista", bajo el cual se suele identificar la lírica de Poeta en Nueva York. Mediante el análisis de "El rey de Harlem", "Pequeño vals vienés" y "Son de negros en Cuba" se verá que, lejos de practicar el verso "libre", García Lorca concibió el poemario tomando como eje conductor las posibilidades rítmicas que aportaban diversos recursos, tales como el acento, la gama fonética, los patrones silábicos, los tiempos verbales, las estructuras sintácticas y las figuras retóricas de repetición.

This essay explores the metaphysical and philosophical implications of the Pythagorean discovery of irrational numbers, attributed to the figure of Hippasus. Moving beyond a purely historical or mathematical account, it argues that the...more

This essay explores the metaphysical and philosophical implications of the Pythagorean discovery of irrational numbers, attributed to the figure of Hippasus. Moving beyond a purely historical or mathematical account, it argues that the crisis provoked by the square root of two-the "line across the right angle"-did not destroy the Pythagorean concept of cosmic harmony but rather revealed its true, dynamic nature. By framing the irrational not as a flaw but as a necessary tension within order, the essay reinterprets this moment as the first profound encounter with the incommensurable in Western thought. It examines how this revelation forced innovations in mathematics, fractured the scientific imagination, and provided a foundation for Platonic dualism. Ultimately, this study posits that Hippasus's exile represents an eternal epistemological condition: the moment consciousness confronts an irreducible mystery at the heart of reality, transforming wonder from a state of ignorance into a mode of attentive participation in a cosmos that forever exceeds full comprehension.

The subject of this article is the 'conduct marking' in Junior secondary school. I present the study results, that can be a source of information on school and can contribute to the debate about condition of Polish education. The results...more

The subject of this article is the 'conduct marking' in Junior secondary school. I present the study results, that can be a source of information on school and can contribute to the debate about condition of Polish education. The results are the following: the educational ideal at school is the conformist attitude, students whose conduct is assessed are not motivated to act or work on improving themselves. Schools don't support student's development by preparing for autonomous learning, critical attitude, self-assessment, introspection, initiative, involvement and self-development.

Entende-se por “crítica genética” um método de trabalho crítico inicialmente produzido pela expansão do espaço hermenêutico textual de modo a abrigar os vestígios do seu processo de criação: manuscritos, anotações, planos, esboços –...more

Entende-se por “crítica genética” um método de trabalho crítico inicialmente produzido pela expansão do espaço hermenêutico textual de modo a abrigar os vestígios do seu processo de criação: manuscritos, anotações, planos, esboços – chamados de “pré-textos”. O desenvolvimento de tal concepção deriva de um conjunto de processos históricos, plurinacionais e, com frequência, independentes. Este artigo busca identificar e debater a decorrência de tais processos no Brasil por meio do pensamento e da atuação de Telê Ancona Lopez, reconhecendo ao mesmo tempo suas contribuições para uma genética francesa e sua leitura de teóricos estrangeiros como brecha para a transformação dos pressupostos locais.

With the advent of digital technology, authorial philology faces new challenges. The “intangible papers”, made of bytes rather than paper, are the result of a radical shift in the way literature is written and experienced. And they compel...more

With the advent of digital technology, authorial philology faces new challenges. The “intangible papers”, made of bytes rather than paper, are the result of a radical shift in the way literature is written and experienced. And they compel archivists and philologists to rethink their methods and practices. The proceedings of the international conference The Intangible Papers. Authorial Philology and Born-Digital Texts (Pavia, 11-13 December 2023) seek to illustrate this ongoing transformation. Experts and scholars from universities and research centres share their insights and experiences on the acquisition, preservation, and enhancement of born-digital materials. With the awareness that only collaboration between archival science, computer science, and philology can ensure the longevity and accessibility of a cultural legacy essential to the future of our collective memory.

A SAMPLE OF PAGES 3-9 'Every letter is a hard but yours sure is the hardest crux ever' (FW 623.33-4). 2014 saw the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first edition of Finnegans Wake. 2019 will see the eightieth anniversary and it will also...more

A SAMPLE OF PAGES 3-9 'Every letter is a hard but yours sure is the hardest crux ever' (FW 623.33-4). 2014 saw the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first edition of Finnegans Wake. 2019 will see the eightieth anniversary and it will also see, we hope, the publication of a new edition with an emended text and an apparatus which will explain our emendations, and clarify many of the issues around unresolved textual cruxes. The edition will be published by Oxford University Press in two large hardback volumes -one with the emended text, the other with the 'apparatus'. There will also be an online version. It will keep to the number of pages (628) and the number of lines per page (36) in the first edition in order to coincide for 99.5% of the text with the traditional form of references in annotations and critical commentaries. As well as making this announcement in this special Finnegans Wake issue of the Dublin James Joyce Journal, we are also providing a sample of our research: of the textual errors and cruxes we have identified so far from the first 6 pages (3-9), and, more importantly, examples of the justificatory apparatus that will explain our choices. This is intended to provoke a discussion about methodology, and about whether or how to fine-tune the basic principles that we have developed. It is also intended to introduce new readers to the issues at play in working with Joyce's manuscripts with a view to identifying errors. We thus wish to encourage feedback from experts, but also from readers who might be new to this material and who are interested in the genesis of these textual issues. We are planning to publish, as our work unfolds over the next three years, a 'work in progress' blog revealing some of the trickier textual issues that arise where we hope also to prompt, just as in this essay, responses to our scholarship. We are thus aiming to develop a kind 95

Resumen: La configuración de un espacio narrativo que evoca distintos aspectos biográficos es una recurrencia en la obra de Martín Gaite. Bajo la denominación de 'las novelas de Piñor' analizo tres relatos de desigual extensión que...more

Resumen: La configuración de un espacio narrativo que evoca distintos aspectos biográficos es una recurrencia en la obra de Martín Gaite. Bajo la denominación de 'las novelas de Piñor' analizo tres relatos de desigual extensión que conforman un proyecto coherente. Se trata de Las ataduras (1959), Retahílas (1974) y El pastel del diablo (1985). Comparten un referente real convertido en trasunto literario, la aldea de San Lorenzo de Piñor, en que la autora pasó los veranos de su infancia, y el desarrollo literario de una intención perseguida en toda la obra gaiteana,

This article analyzes two previously unstudied blogs by the poet, prose writer, and digital creator Tomasz Pułka. Treating the blog as an autobiographical genre, the article asks how the blog challenges the generic stability of entries...more

This article analyzes two previously unstudied blogs by the poet, prose writer, and digital creator Tomasz Pułka. Treating the blog as an autobiographical genre, the article asks how the blog challenges the generic stability of entries which may be classified as literary texts. Digital philology and genetic criticism are employed to analyze Pułka’s works. Two models of blogging that were practiced by Pułka from 2008 to 2009 are discussed: the first is the notebook mode and the second is the intermedial model. The undertaken analysis gives rise to a tentative history of Pułka’s creative process and highlights the connections between the poetics of the blog, conditioned by the possibilities and limitations of Blogger.com, and the poetics of poetic texts acknowledged by literary criticism.

The article discusses the strategy of reading the body of texts published by Tomasz Pułka on the Nieszuflada poetry portal, which is almost completely overlooked in literary reception and publishing practice. The author answers the...more

The article discusses the strategy of reading the body of texts published by Tomasz Pułka on the Nieszuflada poetry portal, which is almost completely overlooked in literary reception and publishing practice. The author answers the question of how the technological aspects of the publication, such as the user interface and code, are relevant in the context of the philological and genetic reading of the texts posted on the portal. The source code of the website is treated as material for philological research.

Si les manuscrits littéraires intéressent depuis longtemps non seulement les critiques, mais aussi les archivistes, les collectionneurs, les biographes ou les philologues, il demeure que le courant de la critique génétique, apparu en...more

Si les manuscrits littéraires intéressent depuis longtemps non seulement les critiques, mais aussi les archivistes, les collectionneurs, les biographes ou les philologues, il demeure que le courant de la critique génétique, apparu en France au cours des années 70 au sein de ce qui deviendra l'ITEM (Institut des Textes et des Manuscrits Modernes), a renouvelé en profondeur l'étude des traces matérielles du travail d'écriture des écrivains et des écrivaines. Dans un premier temps, il s'agira de définir brièvement l'originalité de ce courant critique et d'en circonscrire les principaux enjeux méthodologiques et théoriques. Ensuite, nous présenterons des documents témoignant de la genèse de On the Road de Jack Kerouac en soulignant l'influence que les textes de James Joyce ont manifestement eu sur cette genèse, tout particulièrement en ce qui a trait à son plurilinguisme. Ceci nous permettra d'aborder ce qui est, sans contredit, la genèse du plus babélien des textes joyciens, Finnegans Wake.

The subject of the article is the Kommissionen til Bevaring af danske Forfatteres Manuskripter og Breve (the Commission for the Preservation of Manuscripts and Letters by Danish Authors), which was set up in 1910. The article shows that...more

The subject of the article is the Kommissionen til Bevaring af danske Forfatteres Manuskripter og Breve (the Commission for the Preservation of Manuscripts and Letters by Danish Authors), which was set up in 1910. The article shows that this now completely forgotten commission played a significant role in the early phase of a major and fundamental, but little examined, historical development in Denmark in the 20th century, a period when both writers and archival institutions became increasingly aware of the need to preserve so-called ‘literary remains’ (manuscripts, drafts, letters, diaries etc.) for posterity and to establish archives of contemporary writers. The article examines the historical and institutional background of the commission’s work, including its terms of reference, working method, public action, stages of development – and dissolution. The article also maps the constant negotiation that was clearly in question, as it was far from self-evident that letters and manuscripts would be preserved. The work of the commission resulted in several public controversies, inter-institutional rivalries and discord within the walls of the individual archival institutions. In conclusion, the article shows how the commission’s work became a concrete link between, on the one hand, the incorporation of the Collin Manuscript Collection in 1905 and, on the other, the establishment of the Georg Brandes Archive in 1912.
The article, which is based on a large amount of – for the most part – previously unused source material, is a contribution to 20th-century Danish library, archival and literary history in terms of both subject matter and methodology. In terms of the latter, the article concludes not only that archives can provide source material, such as liter-ary studies, but also that they can become an object of analysis in their own right: the studies of individual archives’ provenance, structure, discarded material, supplements etc. can be mapped to varying degrees, and they can potentially provide an insight into mechanisms in the literary field.

The literary archive of J. G. Ballard at the British Library includes an unpublished story set in the environs of Vermilion Sands, a fictional desert resort that is the exotic location of nine stories Ballard wrote between 1956 and 1966....more

The literary archive of J. G. Ballard at the British Library includes an unpublished story set in the environs of Vermilion Sands, a fictional desert resort that is the exotic location of nine stories Ballard wrote between 1956 and 1966. The stories were subsequently collected and published as Vermilion Sands (1971 and 1973). The unpublished story in the archive – which has no title, is not dated, and was eventually abandoned as a composition – comprises seventeen closely typed pages that were revised and annotated on more than one occasion (in red and blue ink). When was it written? Why was it abandoned? This study attempts to answer these questions by assessing a range of evidence, beginning with the identification of textual clues to the date of composition. The draft story’s thematic relationship to the stories of Vermilion Sands is then considered, particularly its relationship to ‘The Screen Game’, a story with which it has much in common. Finally, and rewardingly, the physical evidence of the document itself is assessed, the distinctive paper on which the story was typed.

Young author Cham S. Mansour has, and for a platform where literary composition is better received, refined upon one of her academic essays, literary critique upon Edgar Allan Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and argumentative...more

Young author Cham S. Mansour has, and for a platform where literary composition is better received, refined upon one of her academic essays, literary critique upon Edgar Allan Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and argumentative against the logic very much wanting in the method it tells of. This is not in empty repudiation of a point impertinent to the literature of today: Poe's essay tells of the arithmetic and strategy upon which his acclaimed "The Raven" was established ― the arithmetic in the method being upon closer inspection of quite a conflicting nature with conventional poetic composition, which has for long posed question as to whether the poem was at all thus conceived.

The men met twice in Dickens’ suite at the hotel, Poe in his neat but worn black suit, a portrait of gentile poverty, Dickens draped in fine clothes and jewellery for the first meeting, and in his dressing gown for the second. The...more

The men met twice in Dickens’ suite at the hotel, Poe in his neat but worn black suit, a portrait of gentile poverty, Dickens draped in fine clothes and jewellery for the first meeting, and in his dressing gown for the second. The meetings appear to have been scholarly and impersonal, although Dickens was travelling with a portrait of his children and Grip, and it is likely that he showed this to Poe given the latter’s enthusiasm for the ‘Grip’ of Barnaby Rudge. They discussed contemporary English and American authors, literary history, and composition, as well as the need for workable international copyright legislation. Poe is not mentioned in American Notes, and the author who made the greatest impression on Dickens during the visit was Washington Irving, who Dickens described as ‘my dear friend.’ But then, Irving was a literary giant, whereas Poe was, by Dickens’ standards, a nobody.

The famous Banker and industrialist C.F. Tietgen completed the building of the Marble Church in Copenhagen in 1894, but he decided to be buried in the suburb church in Lyngby, next to Peter Rørdam, who had introduced him to the religious...more

The famous Banker and industrialist C.F. Tietgen completed the building of the Marble Church in Copenhagen in 1894, but he decided to be buried in the suburb church in Lyngby, next to Peter Rørdam, who had introduced him to the religious teachings of pastor and psalm composer N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872), who had influenced Widow Queen Caroline Amalie (1796-1881). The son, pastor Frederik Lange Grundtvig returned ill from his mission in Clinton, Iowa in 1883, and spoke at Tietgens funeral in 1901. In Danish

There is a vast literature showing that author-translator relationships are often fraught with tensions which undermine trust between the two parties (Anokhina 2017; Hersant, 2017, 2020). These tensions are hardly detectable from the sole...more

There is a vast literature showing that author-translator relationships are often fraught with
tensions which undermine trust between the two parties (Anokhina 2017; Hersant, 2017,
2020). These tensions are hardly detectable from the sole comparison of source and target texts
but are likely to be revealed in archival material such as editorial correspondence or revised
translator’s typescripts and galley proofs. The examination of archival material makes it possible
to observe how trust between translator and author develops and deepens, but also how it can be
jeopardized when other intermediaries come into play. This paper focuses on documents taken
from the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana Bloomington. Both epitextual sources (such
as correspondence with publishers and authors) and genetic sources (such as translators’
manuscripts and notebooks) pertaining to translators William Weaver (1923-2012) and
Barbara Wright (1915-2009) are examined, with a view to better understand the complex
interplay of trust and mistrust that takes place in translation collaborations.

This article addresses some of the issues relevant to audiovisual retranslation with a focus on film redubs, a vast though still largely underexplored phenomenon that merits specific investigation. Redubbing is an umbrella term which...more

This article addresses some of the issues relevant to audiovisual retranslation with a focus on film redubs, a vast though still largely underexplored phenomenon that merits specific investigation. Redubbing is an umbrella term which encompasses translation and adaptation practices ranging from mere reacting of a previously translated dubbing script, to slight revision, to completely new translating (Chaume 2007; Zanotti 2015). The present contribution aims to illustrate what archival resources are available for scholars wishing to pursue research on film retranslation and the specific problems that arise in dealing with redubs when considered from a historical and archival perspective. A case study is presented, focusing on For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), a classic Hollywood romance-at-war tale which was dubbed at least three times for distribution in Italy.

Drawing on a variety of archival sources, this paper aims to explore the dissonant and conflicting narratives that emerge from the surviving drafts of the Italian translation of Blooms of Dublin, a musical adaptation of James Joyce's...more

Drawing on a variety of archival sources, this paper aims to explore the dissonant and conflicting narratives that emerge from the surviving drafts of the Italian translation of Blooms of Dublin, a musical adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses by Anthony Burgess (1986). I will investigate the genesis of this translation and the way it unfolds in the rich archival records held at the Anthony Burgess Foundation Archives, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Archives of Teatro Verdi in Trieste. By examining the surviving archival traces of this collaborative venture-an unfinished translation project that can be detected only in the archive-, the study aims not only to reconstruct the working methods that were adopted for this translation project, but also to lay the groundwork for further explorations into Burgess's approach to translation. In exploring the conflicting narratives that emerge in and out of the archive, this paper will attempt to provide some new insights into the dynamics that underlie collaborative (self-)translation (Hersant

Do you not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is more and more night not coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we hear anything yet of the noise of the grave diggers who are burying...more

Do you not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is more and more night not coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we hear anything yet of the noise of the grave diggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition-gods, too, decompose.

Georges Perec (1936Perec ( -1982) ) jouit aujourd'hui d'une visibilité tacite mais considérable, et ce, grâce à ses biographes, spécialistes et traducteurs qui continuent à mettre en lumière son oeuvre, y compris les publications...more

Georges Perec (1936Perec ( -1982) ) jouit aujourd'hui d'une visibilité tacite mais considérable, et ce, grâce à ses biographes, spécialistes et traducteurs qui continuent à mettre en lumière son oeuvre, y compris les publications posthumes. Moins connu est le fait que l'un de ses éditeurs, Maurice Olender , non seulement est né et a grandi à Anvers, mais qu'il a su, tout comme Perec, donner forme et substance à une pensée intellectuelle, philosophique et humaniste, à contre-courant : celle de "la littérature et la critique après la Shoah". Tous deux peuvent être considérés comme des "marranes" au sens large du terme : leur identité juive se laisse percevoir en filigrane à travers leurs oeuvres respectives. Mais c'est aussi dans le domaine éditorial que Perec et Olender ont laissé une empreinte indélébile. Perec rêvait d'un journal qui s'appellerait Ligne Générale, tandis qu'Olender fonda la collection La Librairie du XXIe siècle. Celle-ci met en avant des livres innovants et courageux, et republie notamment des oeuvres pionnières de l'OULIPO, comme celles de Marcel Bénabou -ami proche de Perec -qui interviendra lors du colloque via Zoom. Les écrits d'Olender lui-même, ainsi que ceux de nombreux oulipiens, ont trouvé un espace d'expression dans cette collection. Ces aspects -parmi tant d'autres -seront explorés au cours des différentes interventions lors de notre séminaire international de deux jours, organisé à l'occasion du décès de Maurice Olender à Paris en 2022. Quelques semaines auparavant, disparaissait également une mécène importante et muse de Perec : Suzanne Lipinska, qui, durant des années, offrit l'hospitalité à Perec, à ses amis et à d'autres auteurs venus de France et de ses anciennes colonies (cf. Gyssels 2021(cf. Gyssels , 2022(cf. Gyssels , 2023)). Nous avons également le plaisir d'annoncer que la veuve de Maurice Olender, elle-même écrivaine reconnue, ouvrira notre "Hommage" par une conférence destinée au grand public : Lydia Flem parlera de la signification d'Olender dans son propre parcours.

Starting from "Varie Avvertenze Utili, e necessarie agli Amatori de' buoni libri" (1756) by Gaetano Volpi, and drawing on the contributions of Kristian Jensen ("Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780-1815") and...more

Starting from "Varie Avvertenze Utili, e necessarie agli Amatori de' buoni libri" (1756) by Gaetano Volpi, and drawing on the contributions of Kristian Jensen ("Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780-1815") and David McKitterick ("Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830" and "The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840"), up to the most recent monographs "The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890-1939" and "The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945", it is
possible to trace how specific criteria for collecting manuscripts and early printed books emerged between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This paper aims to revisit these reflections in order to address the following question: is it possible to identify certain characteristics that allowed manuscripts to continue to be collected, despite the advent of print?

In particular, the study will focus on the case of the personal library of Carlo Ludovico of Bourbon, assembled during his Duchy of Lucca (1824-1847) with the assistance of librarian Pietro Pera, who, in his address "Intorno all'origine, progresso ed utilità della Reale Biblioteca Palatina di Lucca", outlines the selection criteria for the volumes.

A comparison between the manuscript catalogue and the incunabula catalogue of this collection – now preserved in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma – may offer further insights into whether these two bibliographic categories were viewed as competing or complementary within a fully
nineteenth-century collection.

Fina Warschaver (1910-1989), dramaturga, traductora, compositora y escritora argentina, ha suscitado recientemente un interés renovado desde la crítica literaria y la historiografía por su estética vanguardista, su posicionamiento...more

Fina Warschaver (1910-1989), dramaturga, traductora, compositora y escritora argentina, ha suscitado recientemente un interés renovado desde la crítica literaria y la historiografía por su estética vanguardista, su posicionamiento feminista y su militancia comunista. Sin embargo, no se ha considerado hasta el momento una importante dimensión en la escritura y en la biografía de esta autora, esto es, su relación con la historia y la tradición judías. Dicha relación, si evasiva y fragmentaria en su obra publicada –aunque no por ello menos significativa‒, es notable en textos narrativos inéditos y diarios íntimos que se encuentran en su archivo personal. En este sentido, esta ponencia se propone exponer el proceso de construcción de una serie documental específica, conformada por producciones literarias judeoargentinas de Fina Warschaver, a partir del trabajo en su archivo de escritora. Con este fin, por una parte, se dará cuenta de la perspectiva teórico-metodológica en que se basó dicho proceso, desde la cual se sostiene (en base a una triangulación de conceptualizaciones de Mónica Pené, Graciela Goldchluk, Mara Glozman) que el abordaje crítico de un archivo de escritor habilita la confección de un “nuevo archivo", entendido, específicamente, como la selección y puesta en serie de un conjunto de materiales a partir de las preguntas o hipótesis de investigación. Por otra parte, se detallará el interrogante que organizó esta serie en particular, vinculado con los procesos de elaboración literaria de la construcción de pertenencias identitarias desde la frontera judeoargentina y femenina.

Dans le milieu académique français les croisements entre diverses matières sont fortement encouragés, enrichissant par là même la réflexion théorique sur les outils méthodologiques. Ainsi, certaines sciences relativement jeunes prennent...more

Dans le milieu académique français les croisements entre diverses matières sont fortement encouragés, enrichissant par là même la réflexion théorique sur les outils méthodologiques. Ainsi, certaines sciences relativement jeunes prennent aujourd’hui place auprès de disciplines classiques. C’est le cas de la génétique du texte. Apparue dans le prolongement du structuralisme dans les années soixante-dix, complémentaire de la philologie classique, de la sémiologie et de la linguistique, elle entend compléter l’horizon épistémologique du texte en donnant à voir l’écriture non plus comme un résultat, mais comme un processus de création en train de s’accomplir. La génétique pénètre de plus en plus le champ des études hispaniques. C’est pourquoi la parution des quatre volumes des Papiers de travail de l’écrivain argentin Juan José Saer, et la conservation de ses manuscrits à l’Université de Princeton, nous sont apparus comme un motif bibliographique suffisant pour nous replonger dans l’étude de son œuvre. Afin de donner à voir le travail génétique en littérature de langue hispanique, nous illustrerons notre propos par l’analyse de la nouvelle « Sombras sobre vidrio esmerilado » à partir de la transcription d’un incipit abandonné et du manuscrit du cahier numéro 5 – tous deux présents dans le premier volume des Papiers de travail- et d’un feuillet volant extrait du Fonds Saer.

The Role of Language in Shaping Literary Identity is a crucial topic of great interest among researchers and critics. It has occupied the foreground of academic study. With respect to modern English literature, the function of language is...more

The Role of Language in Shaping Literary Identity is a crucial topic of great interest among researchers and critics. It has occupied the foreground of academic study. With respect to modern English literature, the function of language is not merely confined to communication; it plays a vital role in shaping the identity of both the author and the text. Relevantly, language influences the way the writers draw character sketches in their literary works and how they tackle themes and narrative structures. The main objective of this research is to explore how language acts as a tool of expression to shape literary identity in the works of modern English literature. To relieve the task of academic research, some representative literary texts have been selectively chosen. Bearing in mind that some areas of research still need to be brought into the scope of literary discussion, the study focuses on comparing the works of different authors from a diverse range of backgrounds, genres, and cultural contexts within the English-speaking world in the modern times. The interactive relationship between language and literary identity is investigated; the study seeks to trace how language reflects and constructs the identities of writers and their narratives in the context of modernity. The research attempts an outline of literature review, illuminating the topic perspectives and highlighting the role of language in shaping literary identity. The study also adopts an analytical, comparative approach, supported with authenticated references and insights: selected texts are linguistically, contextually and thematically analyzed.The conclusion draws lines together, providing a deeper understanding of the intersection between language, identity, and literature in the contemporary world of English literature.

Looking into the textual genesis of Anna Karenina’s concluding part, the paper seeks to contextualize, in political and biographical terms, Tolstoy’s rebuke of Russian public enthusiasm that erupted in 1876 as the anti-Ottoman Slavic...more

Looking into the textual genesis of Anna Karenina’s concluding part, the paper seeks to contextualize, in political and biographical terms, Tolstoy’s rebuke of Russian public enthusiasm that erupted in 1876 as the anti-Ottoman Slavic insurgency and outright war unfolded in the Balkans. Much of the argument focuses on what, and why, the novel’s polemical tone shares with contemporary dissenting voices of a few high-positioned, aristocratic officials in St. Petersburg whose wariness about the Russian Empire’s Pan-Slavist expansionism stemmed from a particular understanding of empirehood rather than moral, religious, or philosophical considerations.

Tras la muerte de Manuel Puig el 22 de julio de 1990, uno de los primeros textos inéditos en ser difundidos fue Humedad relativa ambiente: 95%, un proyecto de novela en el que presuntamente habría estado trabajando hasta su último...more

Tras la muerte de Manuel Puig el 22 de julio de 1990, uno de los primeros textos inéditos en ser difundidos fue Humedad relativa ambiente: 95%, un proyecto de novela en el que presuntamente habría estado trabajando hasta su último aliento. No obstante, la lectura de su correspondencia alojada en el Archivo Puig rápidamente reveló algo distinto. El presente artículo se propone rastrear el proceso creativo de Humedad relativa ambiente: 95% a la luz de las cartas que Manuel Puig envió a su familia como testimonio de su primera etapa de elaboración, como así también su temprana difusión entre amigos y colegas. La lectura del epistolario no solo es un aporte fundamental para el estudio de la creación de este proyecto de novela, sino también para problematizar su primer abandono. Ni concluido ni abandonado, este proyecto de novela acompañó a Puig durante toda su trayectoria literaria y funcionó como laboratorio de experimentación para muchos de los temas y procedimientos que desarrolló en sus textos publicados, al mismo tiempo que permaneció como una fuente inagotable de recursos disponibles para su uso.

A finales de 1961, instalado en Roma luego de pasar dos años trabajando en producciones cinematográficas en Buenos Aires, Manuel Puig comenzó a escribir el que iba a ser su cuarto guion. El proyecto recibió el título provisorio Nina y Hé...more

A finales de 1961, instalado en Roma luego de pasar dos años trabajando en producciones cinematográficas en Buenos Aires, Manuel Puig comenzó a escribir el que iba a ser su cuarto guion. El proyecto recibió el título provisorio Nina y Hé y el argumento estaba centrado en el rodaje de una película en Brasil con un equipo técnico latinoamericano y la participación estelar de una actriz proveniente de Hollywood. Luego de tres meses de una intensa campaña de escritura, Manuel Puig abandonó el guion, dejándolo inconcluso para abocarse a un nuevo proyecto sobre su pueblo natal General Villegas, que devendría en su primera novela: La traición de Rita Hayworth. Aunque el guion Nina y Hé permaneció inacabado, esa escritura siguió escribiendo en la obra de Manuel Puig y en su lectura pueden prefigurarse muchos de los motivos que se convertirían en característicos de su literatura.