... about the nature of narrative in general or the composition of a particular narrative. However, these excursions have not led to a principled dialogue between genetic criticism and narrative theory. By following major narratologists on their paths to versions of narratives, this essay investigates...

... analytic, noninterpretive idealistic premises of the earlier textual scholarship known as “New Bibliography.” New Textualist scholars have shifted attention from a disputable end product (an author's “work”) to the genetic details in a range of material text witnesses, highlighting their dynamic “fluidity...

... the implications of this genetic approach for our understanding of the nature of narrative signification: where classical narratology is based on a chain of representational and “communicative” dyads (signifier/signified and sender/receiver), joint attention integrates these functions into a triadic semiotic...

... representation. After a review of how cognitivism misinterprets this question as a gradually evolved genetic adaptation of the nervous system, I turn to the theory of representation proposed by the neuroscientist and anthropological researcher Terrence Deacon in The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language...

.... Research in distinct narrative traditions — a form of comparative literary study — offers a possible solution. The author has argued that a number of prototype-based story structures recur across a broad range of genetically and areally distinct traditions. These structures derive from emotion systems...

... to the collective work con- ducted by the Sartre team at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM-CNRS), a long genetic study just crowned by the completion of Why and How Sartre Wrote Words under the direction of Michel Con- tat. Next comes a study of Sarraute’s Enfance, focused on drafts...

..., Freud, and Heidegger), Derrida also undertakes a sus- tained engagement with the molecular biologist and Nobel laureate Franc ois Jacob, who in 1970 published a history of biology called The Logic of Life: AHistory of Heredity.McCance, who holds a PhD in genetics (5), brings a uniquely interdisciplinary...

... Literature at the University of Antwerp, where he directs the Centre for Manuscript Genetics. He is the current president of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and board member of the Samuel Beckett Society. Together with Mark Nixon, he...

... to the institutional program (e.g., the agre´gation program) and to the biological or genetic program. This common feature is what allows the analogy ormetaphor of the one program in terms of the other. Derrida trains attention on this coincidence between institutional codes and genetic codes, and urges his listeners...

... Is There a Single Right Interpretation for Cryptic Texts? 519 Bernaerts, Lars, and Dirk Van Hulle Narrative across Versions: Narratology Meets Genetic Criticism 281 Candel Bormann, Daniel Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value 177 Klecker, Cornelia Mind-Tricking Narratives: Between Classical...

... tolerance among African herders, which appeared in Nature Genetics, December 11, 2006. 810 Poetics Today 28:4 function, the adaptive value, of narratives such that they are virtually ubiq- uitous in human cultures? How do the universal needs of human beings and (something quite different...

... Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Boswell Marshall . 2003 . Understanding David Foster Wallace . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press . Canguilhem Georges . ( 1972 ) 2012 . Writings on Medicine , translated...

... succeeded in becoming such a love-inspired writer. This explains why, in both Proust and Dante, the genetic episode, corresponding to the moment when, having defined their vocation and artistic task, they begin writing their autobiography, comes at the end of the story. This genetic...

... of French literature at the University of Paris-8. Her publications include Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues de Flaubert (1988), Stylistiquedela Tseng 2002.8.27 08:06 580 Poetics Today 23:3 prose (1993), a genetic...

... network of similarities’’ that ‘‘over- lap’’ and ‘‘crisscross’’ among various members of a family with respect to their ‘‘build, fea- tures, color of the eyes, gait, temperament, etc., etc His neglect of the genetic relationships that underlie resemblances within a family was pointed out by Maurice...

... depicting a biblical scene; ibid.: 43 – 44). The second part of this taxonomy is adopted by Loizeaux (1999: 92), who subgroups the hybrid phenomena by their genetic history: “from verbal to visual (illustration) and from visual to verbal (ekphrasis Durcan’s volume is, accordingly, a case of “ekphrasis...

... or even as completely false.) The awareness of an aesthetic intention leads, in its turn, to an awareness of a work’s position in its historical and genetic field, so that in the framework of an aesthetic appraisal of artworks, cultural relativity joins the subjective relativity inherent in all...

... cognitive operation is one of several arguments that can be made for a genetic predisposition to grasp events in time through story form. Whatever its origin, it is a capability that allows us to manage time by finding or imposing connection on otherwise disparate events. There are many ways...