手稿與現代手稿研究(2/2)

This book project proposes to look at how and why a new group of scholars who are inspired by genetic criticism have begun to examine the necessity of installing or restoring interdisciplinary components onto the traditional apparatus of genetic criticism. Furthermore, by scrutinizing the particular and yet-to-fully-explored material dimension of various sets of manuscript, the project aims to take stock of the ongoing dialogue between the new generation of modern manuscript study (which strives to reconnect with textual criticism, history of the book and of the publishing, of the historical context and the people within) and traditional tenets of the school. In addition, by accentuating the spatiality of the manuscript page, the book will gain a vantage point from which we can gauge whether the interdisciplinary paradigm which brings together the material, the historical, the psychosomatic and the cognitive strands provides the best tool to understand the emergent creative traces of our accelerated virtuality and enforced isolation. The book comprises two major parts. In the first part, the book intends to examine different geneticists’ attempt to bring textual criticism, post-classical narratology with a cognitive twist, the history of the book, the centrality of editing to bear upon the basic inspiration of genetic criticism. These scholars try to heal the fundamental split between the centrality of avant-texte and critical concerns of textual criticism as well as the importance of the post-publication world and the possibility of a meeting between the cognitive and the creative modeling embodied in the draft manuscript. In the face of the precipitation of the digital and the virtual, there is a urgent need for a new paradigm of understanding creativity and the creative act or for a paradigm radical enough to be able to take notice of the expressive form beyond the horizon. In the second part, differing sets of manuscript will be studied, including Wang Wen-hsing, Zhou Mengdie, Lu Xun, as well as Dickinson, Walser, Beckett and Rousseau. One main common feature which runs through the writers is that the material draft page becomes the space in which the creative confronts the psychic, the historical and the narratologico- cognitive. From the perspective of the project, the draft page space is the site we can best observe the material traces of how the internal and the external spheres of influence converge and diverge. The draft space will also serve as the place in which the two main facets of theory and case study will hopefully come together and from this new elevation, we will strive to envision an approach that is adequate to the new era of the virtual and the low-tech. A chapter or chapters will need to be devoted to better clarify the underlying theoretical stakes of the draft space which will then provide a better retrospective view of the preceding theoretic discussions and case studies.