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The work of revision / Hannah Sullivan.

Title
The work of revision / Hannah Sullivan.
Author
Sullivan, Hannah, 1979-
Publication
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Description
349 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Argues that our faith in the virtues of revision is based on a modernist approach to rewriting shaped literary style in the 20th century.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American literature > 20th century > Criticism, Textual
  • English literature > 20th century > Criticism, Textual
  • Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries
  • Intertextuality
  • Authorship
  • Editing
  • Publishing
  • Modernisme (Littérature) > Anglophonie
  • Intertextualité
  • Art d'écrire
  • Édition
  • authorship
  • 18.05 English literature
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • 17.84 language and style in literature
  • Literature
  • American literature
  • English literature
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Literatur
  • Englisch
  • Textkritik
  • English-speaking countries
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Textual criticism, the history of revision, and genetic reading -- Henry James's perfectionism : problems of substitution -- Excision and textual waste -- Joyce and the illogic of addition -- "I am dead" : autobiography revisited -- Revision, late modernism, and digital texts.
ISBN
  • 9780674073128
  • 0674073126
LCCN
  • 2012042986
  • 40022472002
OCLC
  • 812067716
  • SCSB-12487698
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library