| Title |
The author husband, the publisher wife, and the humble servant editor, or a scholar chasing a sparrow |
| Authors |
Gervytė, Dovilė |
| DOI |
10.4000/15do6 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Variants. The journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship: Authors and their drafts in context.. Amsterdam : European Society for Textual Scholarship. 2025, [vol.] 19, p. 97-120.. ISSN 1573-3084. eISSN 1879-6095 |
| Keywords [eng] |
born-digital ; genetic criticism ; Lithuanian literature ; revision |
| Abstract [eng] |
Studying born-digital manuscripts often means engaging not only with the living author, but also with their vibrant editors and publishers. The genetic critic encounters the authorial and editorial voices in digital drafts in the form of textual records. These records, however, reach the geneticist as an accumulative entity, and in reconstructing the genesis it is the task of the critic to disentangle the voices of these agents in order to understand how they affected the formation of textual meaning. The question arises as to what varying understandings of the work can be identified through reconstructing its genesis, and how the multiple conceptions of the work held by those agents (author, editor, publisher, or the geneticist themselves) interact in the genetic narrative. In the light of these questions, this article presents a genetic analysis of the novel Ch. (2021) written by the acclaimed Lithuanian author Tomas Vaiseta. The case promotes the view that, depending on the intervening agency, a variety of strategies for narrating the avant-texte can be employed. |
| Published |
Amsterdam : European Society for Textual Scholarship |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
| CC license |
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