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The twenty-first century: from paper notebooks to keystroke logging

Abstract:
In the twenty-first century, the digital medium has become an indispensable part of the literary writing process and can hardly be neglected in the study of the literary draft from this – yet very recent – millennium. In this chapter, we examine four manifestations of the twenty-first century literary draft on a spectrum ranging from fully analogue to fully digital: the paper draft of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, the self-archived digital draft of Bart Moeyaert’s Het paradijs, the hybrid draft of Gie Bogaert’s Roosevelt, and the keystroke logging draft of David Troch’s story “Mondini”. These types of drafts offer their respective levels of granularity to examine the writing process, and especially the latter type of draft presents us with a hitherto unprecedented degree of detail, opening up the document’s nanogenesis.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1075/chlel.35.06bek

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
Jesus College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-7066-6313

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


Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Host title:
A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Pages:
87-98
Chapter number:
1.1.6
Series:
Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
Series number:
XXXV
Place of publication:
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Publication date:
2024-11-08
Edition:
1
DOI:
ISSN:
0238-0668
EISBN:
9789027246585
ISBN:
9789027215260


Language:
English
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Chapter
Pubs id:
2068190
Local pid:
pubs:2068190
Deposit date:
2024-12-02

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