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Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson

Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson

Bushell, Sally

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 0813927749
ISBN13: 9780813927749
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Apr 14 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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