Paul Eggert's book meshes biographical scholarship and editorial theory with literary-critical analysis to offer a fresh understanding and appreciation of how D. H. Lawrence wrote. By concentrating on the material surfaces and biographical moments of Lawrence's textual performances as he wrote and revised, Eggert reveals a continuous intellectual-imaginative project across his novels, stories, plays and poems. Gone is the old Lawrence-as-moralist of the sacred body and interfering mind in ...

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed ...

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional...

This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (181368) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur's two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive.The letters selected for this...

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different concerns shared by editors of a variety of genres, literary and otherwise, emerge here as constructive new approaches to the theory and practice of editing are explored. The essays make a concerted atte...

Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad's great novel Under Western Eyes differs from all pre...

Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less indistinguishable and sometimes as incompatible This book aims at establishing precisely how Kristeva's and Derrida's writings may be articulated, tracing intersections and divergences, parallels and disco...