Journal article
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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1875-7405
- ISSN:
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0927-3131
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1120118
- Local pid:
- pubs:1120118
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill NV
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Brill at https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03101004
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