Rewriting(s)

Lucy Russell; Eleanor Dobson

Rewriting(s)

Edited by Lucy Russell and Eleanor Dobson

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MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 11

Modern Humanities Research Association

15 February 2017

In Borges’s classic tale Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, it is said of Pierre that ‘he did not want to compose another Quixote – which is easy – but the Quixote itself’.

Rewriting encourages a reassessment of the given. It is also a conscious positioning of a text within a tradition, a series, a developmental process of literature: if all texts are implicitly formed of preceding writings, then rewriting makes this explicit. Rewriting occurs within and across genres, movements, cultures, and political frameworks, simultaneously transforming and preserving the root works. It spans the reworking of tales such as those of Faust, Odysseus, and Marco Polo; the renewal of texts by their own author or at the hand of another; and the critical afterlife of a work. Rewriting conflates reader and writer, and queries the conceived boundaries of a text. It is a literary mode which reveals the protean natures of text, influence, tradition, genre, authorship, and readership; bringing the very essence of what we mean by ‘literature’ into question.

See news item: Haunted by Presences: Interview with Eleanor Dobson (10 March 2018)

Contents:

1-8	Introduction: Rewriting(s) Lucy Russell, Eleanor Dobson	Read Cite
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9-16	‘Cualquier hombre es todos los hombres’ (‘any man is all men’): Jorge Luis Borges, W. B. Yeats and Eternal Return Grace Gaynor	Read Cite
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17-29	Rewriting Othello for the Stalinist Stage: The Case of Sergei and Anna Radlov Jill Warren	Read Cite
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30-38	‘The Truth Only Partially Perceived’: (Mis)Reading/Writing, Rewriting, and Artistic Development in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet Rachel Darling	Read Cite
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39-49	Spectres of Balzac: Stefan Zweig’s Collection of Manuscripts and his Rewriting of the Unfinished Balzac Pardaad Chamsaz	Read Cite
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Russell, Lucy, and Eleanor Dobson (eds), Rewriting(s) (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 11 (2017)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-11> [accessed 1 December 2023]

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Rewriting(s), ed. by Lucy Russell and Eleanor Dobson (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 11 (2017)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-11> [accessed 1 December 2023], p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: ³⁷ Russell and Dobson, p. 47.

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Russell, Lucy, and Eleanor Dobson (eds). 2017. Rewriting(s) (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 11) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-11> [accessed 1 December 2023]

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