{"product_id":"genetic-joyce-manuscripts-and-the-dynamics-of-creation-paperback","title":"Genetic Joyce: Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Ferrer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn introduction to the fascinating world of Joyce's manuscripts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscript and textual development of a literary text. Using a concrete approach focused on the materiality of Joyce's writing process, Ferrer demonstrates how to recover the process of invention and its internal dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing specific, detailed examples, Ferrer analyzes the part played by chance in Joyce's creative process, the spatial dimension of writing, the genesis of the \"Sirens\" episode, and the transition from \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e. The book includes a study of Joyce's mysterious \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e notebooks, examining their strange form of intertextuality in light of Joyce's earlier forms of note-taking. Moving beyond the single author perspective, Ferrer contrasts Joyce's notes alluding to Virginia Woolf's criticism of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e with Woolf's own notes on the novel's first episodes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout this book, Ferrer describes the logic of the creative process as seen in the record left by Joyce in notebooks, drafts, typescripts, proofs, correspondence, early printed versions, and other available documents. Each change detected reveals a movement from one state to another, a new direction, challenging readers to understand the reasons for each movement and to appreciate the wealth of information to be found in Joyce's manuscripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Ferrer\u003c\/b\u003e, director of research emeritus at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris, is the author or editor of many books, from \u003ci\u003ePoststructuralist Joyce: Essays from the French\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf and the Madness of Language\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRenascent Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGenetic Criticism and its Logics: The Draft and the Text\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090540253491,"sku":"9780813081823","price":37.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nykgye6ye89780813081823.webp?v=1789606308","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/genetic-joyce-manuscripts-and-the-dynamics-of-creation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}