Genetic criticism and the creative process : essays from music, literature, and theater

Genetic criticism and the creative process : essays from music, literature, and theater /

The term "genetic criticism" or "critique génétique" relates not to the field of genetics, but to the genesis of works of art, as studied in a broad and inclusive context. The essays in this volume explore aspects of genetic criticism in an interdisciplin.

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Other Authors: Kinderman, William (Editor), Jones, Joseph E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arts, Modern.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Arts, Modern
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : Genetic criticism and the creative process / William Kinderman
  • Part One. Texts, variants, and variations : evolving contexts in literature and theater. 1. From varieties of genetic experience to radical philology / Geert Lernout
  • 2. Variant and variation : toward a Freudo-bathmologico-Bakhtino-Goodmanian genetic model? / Daniel Ferrer
  • 3. The genetic record of a voice : variants in Barthes's Le Plaisir du texte / Armine Kotin Mortimer
  • 4. Can genetic criticism be applied to the performing arts? / Jean-Louis Lebrave
  • 5. "The hardy Laurel" : Beckett and early film comedy / Robert B. Graves
  • Part Two. Genetic processes in music : from Beethoven to Leroux. 6. From melodic patterns to themes : the sketches for the original version of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, Op. 53 / Alan Gosman
  • 7. From conceptual image to realization : some thoughts on Beethoven's sketches / Lewis Lockwood
  • 8. The process within the product : exploratory transitional passages in Beethoven's late quartet sketches / Peter McCallum
  • 9. "They only give rise to misunderstandings" : Mahler's sketches in context / James L. Zychowicz
  • 10. A study of Richard Strauss's creative process : Der Rosenkavalier's "Presentation scene" and "Schlussduett" / Joseph E. Jones
  • 11. Genetic criticism and cognitive anthropology : a reconstruction of Philippe Leroux's compositional process for Voi(rex) / Nicolas Donin
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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