Melville Unfolding

"John Bryant's study Melville Unfolding focuses on the evolution of Typee, guiding readers through the intriguing twists and turns of Melville's writing process, as well as the delights and frustrations of reading a writer in manuscript. In jargon-free prose, it acquaints readers with the scholarship of manuscript study, the use of the "revision narrative, ' and the benefits of "fluid-text analysis" in critical and cultural study. In doing so, the book asks readers to consider what a text is, how it comes into being, and how it evolves and why; how to read a text as it evolves;and how the study of a fluid text enhances our understanding of writers, writing, and culture." "Melville Unfolding's appendix provides in a fluid-text edition selected revision sites from the manuscript. The selections have been drawn from the Typee online electronic archive, which provides the full complement of Melville's revisions, both in manuscript and in the first published edition. The print version includes a photoreproduction of the full manuscript, a complete transcription and reading text, and the revision sequences and revision narratives for the revision discussed in Melville Unfolding." "Melville Unfolding offers a new approach in literary analysis and provides a model for how critical analysis and textual editing work synergistically, and how book and online technologies can complement one another. It will be of interest to scholars and critics of American literature, history, and culture; textual scholars and editors; and students of writing, composition, and creative writing."--Jacket.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Michigan Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

488

ISBN

9780472115921

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