Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/04/2009
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780813927749
- 9780813927749
- Category:
- Literary studies: poetry & poets
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-04-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Virginia Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x156x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.58kg
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