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Samuel Beckett's manuscripts : a literary archive in the digital age
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Author
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Abstract
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| This chapter combines genetic criticism and digital scholarly editing to offer an alternative perspective on Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, nuancing the dominant one-directional dynamics of ‘undoing’ or ‘vaguening’ and suggesting a dialectics of accretion and taking away. This is made possible thanks to the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), which functions as an archive as well as an edition. It unites the author’s globally dispersed manuscripts in an online environment with facsimiles, transcriptions, bilingual version comparison, automatic collation and search function. The BDMP also includes the Beckett Digital Library, which serves as a tool to study how intertextuality figures across his work and how it has evolved over time. Because navigability can become an issue in the digital realm, the chapter also explores ways to enable both micro- and macro-analysis, on the level of the individual work or the oeuvre at large, in connection to Beckett’s other creative activities. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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The Bloomsbury handbook of modernist archives / Callison, J. [edit.]; et al.
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Publication
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London
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Bloomsbury Academic
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2024
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ISBN
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978-1-350-45055-4
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Volume/pages
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p. 131-143
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