The Making of Samuel Beckett\ s \ Malone Dies\ /\ Malone Meurt\

Hulle, Dirk Van|Verhulst, Pim

ISBN 10: 147252344X / ISBN 13: 9781472523440

Published by BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2017

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&Uumlber den AutorDirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and his previous.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Samuel Beckett\ s \ Malone Dies\ /\ Malone Meurt\
• Publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147252344X
• ISBN 13: 9781472523440
• Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Originally published in French as Malone meurt in 1951 and later translated into English by the author himself, Malone Dies is the second novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy.
The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes:

A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages
A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history
A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org

This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

About the Authors

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and his previous books include Textual Awareness (2004).

Pim Verhulst is Research Assistant in English at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Pim Verhulst is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp's Centre for Manuscript Genetics and a team member of the ERC-funded project 'Creative Undoing and Textual Scholarship: A Rapprochement Between Genetic Criticism and Scholarly Editing' (CUTS), supervised by Dirk Van Hulle. His teaching experience includes courses on Academic Writing, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Modernism, English Literary History and Culture. He has published articles on genetic criticism, scholarly editing, bilingualism, (self-)translation, Modernism and radio drama in the journals Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui,
Variants, English Text Construction and the Journal of Beckett Studies, of which he is an assistant editor. He has also contributed to The New Cambridge Compaion to Samuel Beckett (CUP, 2015), Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment (Palgrave, 2017) and Beckett and Modernism (Palgrave, 2018), of which he is a co-editor. He is also the author of The Making of Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays (Bloomsbury, 2018) in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.

Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.