Genetic criticism and the creative process : essays from music, literature, and theater / edited by William Kinderman and Joseph E. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinderman, William, editor.

Jones, Joseph E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studies of the genesis of musical, literary, and theatrical works.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-01133-6

9786613011336

1-58046-753-9

OCLC:

703155200