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Modernist Authors' Reading: Genesis in Authors' Libraries

Description du projet

Explorer la lecture des grands écrivains

Avant de commencer à écrire, tous les écrivains célèbres ont lu. Comment les livres ont-ils inspiré des écrivains tels que Virginia Woolf, James Joyce et Samuel Beckett? Comment les livres que ceux-ci ont lus ont-ils façonné leurs propres œuvres novatrices? Le projet MARGINAL, financé par le CER, vise à reconstituer numériquement les archives personnelles des auteurs afin de déterminer si la lecture a laissé des empreintes créatives dans les marges de la littérature moderniste. Plus précisément, le projet établira les liens entre les textes que ces écrivains ont lus et les chefs-d’œuvre qu’ils ont produits. Ce faisant, il déplacera l’attention de la production à l’apport, mettant au jour les réseaux intellectuels qui ont alimenté un siècle d’innovation littéraire et montrant comment la connaissance, une fois absorbée, devient de l’art.

Objectif

MARGINAL examines authors’ creativity through the traces of their own reading. The project starts from the idea that knowing what and how a writer read can help us understand the origins of their work. A work of literature often starts in the margins of another book.

The project focuses on the reading habits of three modernist authors – Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. The rationale behind the selection of these case studies is based on a twentieth-century crisis of ‘encyclopedism’ – in the sense of comprehensive learning or knowledge. Many modernist and late-modernist writers problematized the encyclopedic ambition that marked their time, but the paradox is that they were only able to do so because they were so knowledgeable themselves. As key representatives of their period, Woolf, Joyce and Beckett read a wide range of European authors and left substantial personal libraries that have largely been preserved.

Traces of authors’ reading have so far often been considered a ‘marginal’ phenomenon in textual scholarship. MARGINAL uses recent advances in digital scholarly editing to reverse this formal priority between centre and margin and shift the attention from the authors’ output to their input. It digitally reunites the books they once owned, which are dispersed over dozens of archives and collections (the ‘extant’ library) and reconstructs the parts of their libraries that have been lost (the ‘virtual’ library). The three resulting online, open-access editions of Woolf’s, Joyce’s and Beckett’s libraries will establish and annotate the connections between source texts, reading notes and the authors' own works to see how their multilingual reading informed their writing.

By mapping this marginal zone between reading and writing, the purpose is to consider modernist authors as readers in the first place and examine which books they read, how they read, what records they made of this reading, and how this translated into their own works.

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Institution d’accueil

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 2 448 053,00
Adresse
PRINSSTRAAT 13
2000 Antwerpen
Belgique
Région
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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