Jane Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199273607
- eISBN:
- 9780191706301
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273607.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years (including the only substantial study to date of Skelton's translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus), ...
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This book is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years (including the only substantial study to date of Skelton's translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus), and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found challenging in his work may be attributed to his attempt to reconcile existing views of the poet's role in society with discoveries about the writing process itself. The result is a highly idiosyncratic poetics that locates the poet's authority decisively within his own person, yet at the same time predicates his ‘liberty to speak’ upon the existence of an engaged, imaginative audience. Skelton is frequently treated as a maverick, but this book places his theory and practice firmly in the context of later sixteenth as well as 15th-century traditions. Focusing on his relations with both past and present readers, it reassesses his place in the English literary canon.Less
This book is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years (including the only substantial study to date of Skelton's translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus), and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found challenging in his work may be attributed to his attempt to reconcile existing views of the poet's role in society with discoveries about the writing process itself. The result is a highly idiosyncratic poetics that locates the poet's authority decisively within his own person, yet at the same time predicates his ‘liberty to speak’ upon the existence of an engaged, imaginative audience. Skelton is frequently treated as a maverick, but this book places his theory and practice firmly in the context of later sixteenth as well as 15th-century traditions. Focusing on his relations with both past and present readers, it reassesses his place in the English literary canon.
Dirk Van Hulle
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032009
- eISBN:
- 9780813039657
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032009.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses the different typologies of manuscripts and writing strategies. It introduces the concept of ratiocination, which is the most extreme form of “thinking on paper” and is the ...
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This chapter discusses the different typologies of manuscripts and writing strategies. It introduces the concept of ratiocination, which is the most extreme form of “thinking on paper” and is the approach used by the so-called “syncretists”. It is stated that most typologies work with a model process as a kind of contrastive background against which any deviation in a concrete writing process can be highlighted. “Thinking with the quill” refers to the overabundance of strategies, and it inevitably raises the question of why Arthur Schopenhauer considered this form of thinking inferior to ratiocination inside the skull. The last part of the discussion is spent on the three major stages in the writing process: the avant-texte, the text, and the so-called post-text.Less
This chapter discusses the different typologies of manuscripts and writing strategies. It introduces the concept of ratiocination, which is the most extreme form of “thinking on paper” and is the approach used by the so-called “syncretists”. It is stated that most typologies work with a model process as a kind of contrastive background against which any deviation in a concrete writing process can be highlighted. “Thinking with the quill” refers to the overabundance of strategies, and it inevitably raises the question of why Arthur Schopenhauer considered this form of thinking inferior to ratiocination inside the skull. The last part of the discussion is spent on the three major stages in the writing process: the avant-texte, the text, and the so-called post-text.
Dirk Van Hulle
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032009
- eISBN:
- 9780813039657
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032009.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This introductory chapter discusses manuscripts, manuscript research, and genetic criticism. It states that the focal point of genetic criticism is the process of writing, and that the aim of this ...
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This introductory chapter discusses manuscripts, manuscript research, and genetic criticism. It states that the focal point of genetic criticism is the process of writing, and that the aim of this book is to demonstrate that the composition process is an integral part of what the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett convey. It also looks at the differences between the works of Beckett and Joyce, and provides a brief description of the rest of the book's chapters.Less
This introductory chapter discusses manuscripts, manuscript research, and genetic criticism. It states that the focal point of genetic criticism is the process of writing, and that the aim of this book is to demonstrate that the composition process is an integral part of what the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett convey. It also looks at the differences between the works of Beckett and Joyce, and provides a brief description of the rest of the book's chapters.
Michael Groden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034980
- eISBN:
- 9780813038520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034980.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter recounts from a personal viewpoint the scholarly, genetic activity of working with the National Library of Ireland as it acquired its new Joyce manuscripts and also offers three short ...
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This chapter recounts from a personal viewpoint the scholarly, genetic activity of working with the National Library of Ireland as it acquired its new Joyce manuscripts and also offers three short examples from the new manuscripts. The chapter narrates experiences of reconstructing Joyce's writing processes. The task for the National Library was threefold: to report on the documents' authenticity, contents, and value. The new Ulysses manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland are allowing scholars to begin to develop a more detailed and subtler sense of the drumskin on which Joyce tapped out his book. The gap between the known and the unknown will never be fully closed, but in small and large ways, the new manuscripts will help scholars of Joyce's writing processes move a little farther toward the known.Less
This chapter recounts from a personal viewpoint the scholarly, genetic activity of working with the National Library of Ireland as it acquired its new Joyce manuscripts and also offers three short examples from the new manuscripts. The chapter narrates experiences of reconstructing Joyce's writing processes. The task for the National Library was threefold: to report on the documents' authenticity, contents, and value. The new Ulysses manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland are allowing scholars to begin to develop a more detailed and subtler sense of the drumskin on which Joyce tapped out his book. The gap between the known and the unknown will never be fully closed, but in small and large ways, the new manuscripts will help scholars of Joyce's writing processes move a little farther toward the known.
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036347
- eISBN:
- 9780252097195
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036347.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades ...
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This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of the author’s career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into the author’s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel “Misunderstanding in Moscow,” the fragmentary “Notes for a Novel,” and an eagerly awaited translation of the author’s contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, “What Can Literature Do?” ALso available in English for the first time are prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.Less
This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of the author’s career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into the author’s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel “Misunderstanding in Moscow,” the fragmentary “Notes for a Novel,” and an eagerly awaited translation of the author’s contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, “What Can Literature Do?” ALso available in English for the first time are prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.
Nickola Wolf Nelson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199827282
- eISBN:
- 9780190231781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199827282.003.0020
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter describes a curriculum- and classroom-based, collaborative writing-lab approach to language instruction and intervention. Included are details about how to analyze written story probes ...
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This chapter describes a curriculum- and classroom-based, collaborative writing-lab approach to language instruction and intervention. Included are details about how to analyze written story probes to establish baseline profiles, to guide intervention, and to measure progress. Dynamic assessment and individual scaffolding are described as tools for promoting language and literacy development of students with special needs. Evidence is reported supporting reliability of the story-probe assessment technique and for changes in language performance for 29 students with special needs (SN) and 123 classmates with typical language (TL), who participated in writing-lab instructional and intervention activities for at least half a school year at grades 2, 3, and 4. The students with SN showed changes that suggested that they benefited from the additional scaffolding they received from language interventionists in the classroom.Less
This chapter describes a curriculum- and classroom-based, collaborative writing-lab approach to language instruction and intervention. Included are details about how to analyze written story probes to establish baseline profiles, to guide intervention, and to measure progress. Dynamic assessment and individual scaffolding are described as tools for promoting language and literacy development of students with special needs. Evidence is reported supporting reliability of the story-probe assessment technique and for changes in language performance for 29 students with special needs (SN) and 123 classmates with typical language (TL), who participated in writing-lab instructional and intervention activities for at least half a school year at grades 2, 3, and 4. The students with SN showed changes that suggested that they benefited from the additional scaffolding they received from language interventionists in the classroom.
Judith Davidson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190648138
- eISBN:
- 9780190648152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190648138.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Methodological writing on complex teams is examined from three perspectives: (1) in process, (2) ideal, and (3) methodological literature. Under the topic of in-process methodological writing, the ...
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Methodological writing on complex teams is examined from three perspectives: (1) in process, (2) ideal, and (3) methodological literature. Under the topic of in-process methodological writing, the reader will learn how to construct bins for methodological documentation, from logs and memos to coding and the ongoing construction of a methodological library. Periodic reviews of methodological work will also be discussed. Ideal descriptions of methodology, which are in constant flux, are required throughout the conduct of a project, and this section provides useful, hands-on examples of these forms and how they can serve team needs. In the last section, the reader will learn about new ways to kick-start team writing on methodological issues. This chapter emphasizes the importance of methodological writing to the endeavor of qualitative research, urging qualitative researchers to savor the joys of methodological writing as they would the joys of reporting on substantive findings.Less
Methodological writing on complex teams is examined from three perspectives: (1) in process, (2) ideal, and (3) methodological literature. Under the topic of in-process methodological writing, the reader will learn how to construct bins for methodological documentation, from logs and memos to coding and the ongoing construction of a methodological library. Periodic reviews of methodological work will also be discussed. Ideal descriptions of methodology, which are in constant flux, are required throughout the conduct of a project, and this section provides useful, hands-on examples of these forms and how they can serve team needs. In the last section, the reader will learn about new ways to kick-start team writing on methodological issues. This chapter emphasizes the importance of methodological writing to the endeavor of qualitative research, urging qualitative researchers to savor the joys of methodological writing as they would the joys of reporting on substantive findings.
Julia Briggs
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624348
- eISBN:
- 9780748651856
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624348.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf’s writings is at the heart of this book. The author reconsiders Woolf’s work – from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late ...
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The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf’s writings is at the heart of this book. The author reconsiders Woolf’s work – from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, ‘The Symbol’, and from the most to the least familiar of her novels – from a series of angles. Individual chapters analyse Woolf’s neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to ‘Englishness’ and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments and with the flow of time (and its relative nature), and her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees’s ‘Paris’), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally – and even numerologically – significant. The final chapter examines the differences between Woolf’s texts as they were first published in England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to acknowledge.Less
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf’s writings is at the heart of this book. The author reconsiders Woolf’s work – from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, ‘The Symbol’, and from the most to the least familiar of her novels – from a series of angles. Individual chapters analyse Woolf’s neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to ‘Englishness’ and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments and with the flow of time (and its relative nature), and her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees’s ‘Paris’), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally – and even numerologically – significant. The final chapter examines the differences between Woolf’s texts as they were first published in England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to acknowledge.
Arthur Krystal
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092165
- eISBN:
- 9780300145601
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092165.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter looks at the process of writing about writing. It explains that all forms of writing designate a relationship between writer and public and that style demonstrates both the ability and ...
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This chapter looks at the process of writing about writing. It explains that all forms of writing designate a relationship between writer and public and that style demonstrates both the ability and willingness to comprehend and participate in a worldview that is successive and grounded in history. It also explores the reasons behind the success of the theoretical style of writing.Less
This chapter looks at the process of writing about writing. It explains that all forms of writing designate a relationship between writer and public and that style demonstrates both the ability and willingness to comprehend and participate in a worldview that is successive and grounded in history. It also explores the reasons behind the success of the theoretical style of writing.
Nick Admussen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824856526
- eISBN:
- 9780824873011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824856526.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The introduction reads a poem by Chen Dongdong in order to think through the libidinal and ethical motivations for genre study. It balances the urge to intervene, categorize, and create against the ...
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The introduction reads a poem by Chen Dongdong in order to think through the libidinal and ethical motivations for genre study. It balances the urge to intervene, categorize, and create against the responsibility to artists, editors, and readers, ultimately finding that this conflict is best engaged using methodologies from translation, specifically Yan Fu’s concepts of fidelity, fluency, and elegance. This justifies the translation practice of the rest of the book, as well as the book’s mix of literary analysis, sociology, and history. The introduction ends with a brief summary of chapters one through five.Less
The introduction reads a poem by Chen Dongdong in order to think through the libidinal and ethical motivations for genre study. It balances the urge to intervene, categorize, and create against the responsibility to artists, editors, and readers, ultimately finding that this conflict is best engaged using methodologies from translation, specifically Yan Fu’s concepts of fidelity, fluency, and elegance. This justifies the translation practice of the rest of the book, as well as the book’s mix of literary analysis, sociology, and history. The introduction ends with a brief summary of chapters one through five.
Bhavani Raman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226703275
- eISBN:
- 9780226703299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226703299.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter focuses on discourses about duplicity in Madras. It discusses ensuing struggles over attestation as well as the anxieties and complications of the writing process as manifested in legal ...
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This chapter focuses on discourses about duplicity in Madras. It discusses ensuing struggles over attestation as well as the anxieties and complications of the writing process as manifested in legal domains. It also looks at the creation of counterfeit consciousness and tackles efforts that rearranged the relationship between law and writing, without stabilizing juridical truth.Less
This chapter focuses on discourses about duplicity in Madras. It discusses ensuing struggles over attestation as well as the anxieties and complications of the writing process as manifested in legal domains. It also looks at the creation of counterfeit consciousness and tackles efforts that rearranged the relationship between law and writing, without stabilizing juridical truth.
Jonas Westover
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190219239
- eISBN:
- 9780190219260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190219239.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
Although revues today are known for having no narrative whatsoever, during this era, a script that included recurring characters and a threadbare plot was standard. This chapter looks at Harold ...
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Although revues today are known for having no narrative whatsoever, during this era, a script that included recurring characters and a threadbare plot was standard. This chapter looks at Harold Atteridge’s creative process in writing the script and developing the overarching structure for the shows, with an emphasis on the 1914 edition. The use of specific characters, scenes, and songs were carefully ordered to create a sense of motion and flow that made the revue work on stage. Some of Atteridge’s inspirations are considered, using multiple drafts of scenarios and scripts to understand how the writing process unfolded. The reception of the show and its impact on opening night, as well as what critics thought of the final product, is also included.Less
Although revues today are known for having no narrative whatsoever, during this era, a script that included recurring characters and a threadbare plot was standard. This chapter looks at Harold Atteridge’s creative process in writing the script and developing the overarching structure for the shows, with an emphasis on the 1914 edition. The use of specific characters, scenes, and songs were carefully ordered to create a sense of motion and flow that made the revue work on stage. Some of Atteridge’s inspirations are considered, using multiple drafts of scenarios and scripts to understand how the writing process unfolded. The reception of the show and its impact on opening night, as well as what critics thought of the final product, is also included.
