Samuel Beckett's manuscripts Universiteit Antwerpen
This chapter combines genetic criticism and digital scholarly editing to offer an alternative perspective on Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, nuancing the dominant one-directional dynamics of ‘undoing’ or ‘vaguening’ and suggesting a dialectics of accretion and taking away. This is made possible thanks to the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), which functions as an archive as well as an edition. It unites the author’s globally dispersed ...