Hannah Sullivan

The Work of Revision

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ISBN 13:
9780674073128
author:
Hannah Sullivan
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Harvard University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2013
Pages:
349
Dimensions:
23.62 x 15.75 x 3.3 centimetres
Genre:
Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£33.05

Description

The Work of Revision by Hannah Sullivan explores how writers approach revision and its impact on literary style. By examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs by notable authors such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and others, Sullivan reveals the evolution of reframing techniques. In the early twentieth century, avant-garde writers devoted themselves to laborious acts of reframing, which became a badge of honor for writers anxious to justify the value and difficulty of their work. The advent of the typewriter proved ideal for extensive revisions, fostering self-scrutiny and rereading across multiple drafts. Sullivan shows how these techniques developed in the service of avant-garde experiment have become compositional orthodoxy. Through her analysis, Sullivan sheds light on the complex relationship between revision and originality, challenging the notion that reframing must mar a composition's authenticity.

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