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The Pentimenti Principle: the draft and the draff in Beckett's Critique of Narrative Reason

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Considering deleted passages in a manuscript as a draft’s “draff,” this article investigates the status of such cancelled passages. Since they did not make it into the published text, are they still part of that work, or where do they belong? The proposed pentimenti model suggests a possible answer to this question by comparing cancelled passages to what in the visual arts are the visible traces of earlier painting beneath the top layer. The manuscripts of Beckett’s Fin de partie / Endgame in...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1163/18757405-03101004

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Division:
HUMS
Sub department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
Jesus College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Brill Publisher's website
Journal:
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui Journal website
Volume:
31
Issue:
1
Pages:
37-52
Publication date:
2019-04-11
Acceptance date:
2019-01-02
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EISSN:
1875-7405
ISSN:
0927-3131
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1120118
Local pid:
pubs:1120118
Deposit date:
2020-07-18

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