The Author as Reader: Modernist Marginalia and Authors’ Libraries between Exogenesis and Intertextuality
A writer’s interaction with external source texts is usually referred to as exogenesis in genetic criticism. The exogenetic paradox, according to Pierre-Marc de Biasi, is that exogenetic passages “tend inevitably to be progressively converted into endogenetic material”, which contributes significant...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2025
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | A writer’s interaction with external source texts is usually referred to as exogenesis in genetic criticism. The exogenetic paradox, according to Pierre-Marc de Biasi, is that exogenetic passages “tend inevitably to be progressively converted into endogenetic material”, which contributes significantly to what he called the “definitional limits” of exogenesis. This article suggests that many of these “definitional limits”, however, may also be due to genetic criticism’s sometimes rather biased focus on only one aspect of the author: the author-as-writer. This implicit bias is teleological in the sense of a natural inclination to pay attention in the first instance to reading traces that contributed more or less directly to the writer’s own oeuvre. To counterbalance this implicit teleological bias, this essay attempts to also present the other side of the coin: the author-as-reader. This has a theoretical implication as it helps us draw the contours of the concepts of “intertextuality” and “exogenesis”, based on the premise: every writer is also a reader. |
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