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Revision: rereading, reliving, rewriting

Abstract:
Understood in its broadest sense, as the amelioration or improvement of an earlier textual state, revision is a universal compositional practice. At the same time, authors’ ideas about revision, their capacity for making changes, and the changes themselves are strongly influenced by both the material circumstances of writing and by broader cultural ideas about originality and the ontology of artworks. In addition, the study of revision informs very different intellectual disciplines and methodologies: creative writing pedagogy; editorial practice; traditional biographical criticism; and genetic criticism. This chapter provides a basic typology of different types of revision and comments on the complex types of evidence with which critics have to contend.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1075/chlel.xxxv.17sul

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
New College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
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Editor
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0000-0002-7066-6313

Publisher:
John Benjamins
Host title:
A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Pages:
241-252
Chapter number:
1.3.2
Series:
Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
Series number:
XXXV
Place of publication:
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Publication date:
2024-10-25
Edition:
1
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ISSN:
0238-0668
EISBN:
9789027246585
ISBN:
9789027215260

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English
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Chapter
Pubs id:
1532177
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pubs:1532177
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2023-09-17
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