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Genetic Criticism

Genetic Criticism. Christopher Whalen. Are you a lamb or a wolf?. Are you a Lamb or a Woolf?. Charles Lamb, note on “Oxford in the Vacation” (1820).

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Genetic Criticism

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  1. Genetic Criticism Christopher Whalen

  2. Are you a lamb or a wolf?

  3. Are you a Lamb or a Woolf?

  4. Charles Lamb, note on “Oxford in the Vacation” (1820) There is something to me repugnant, at any time, in written hand. The text never seems determinate. Print settles it. I had thought of the Lycidas as of a full-grown beauty – as springing up with all its parts absolute – till, in evil hour, I was shown the original written copy of it, together with the other minor poems of its author, in the Library of Trinity, kept like some treasure to be proud of. I wish they had thrown them in the Cam, or sent them, after the latter cantos of Spenser, into the Irish Channel. How it staggered me to see the fine things in their ore! interlined, corrected! as if their words were mortal, alterable, displaceable at pleasure! as if they might have been otherwise, and just as good! as if inspirations were made up of parts, and those fluctuating, successive, indifferent! I will never go into the work-shop of any great artist again, nor desire a sight of his picture, till it is fairly off the easel; no, not if Raphael were to be alive again, and painting another Galatea.

  5. Dirk Van Hulle, Manuscript Genetics (2008) The concept of falsifiability is rather a rule of thumb to check one’s own theories or interpretations, and a reminder of the humbling realization that scientific statements are not conclusively verifiable, merely falsifiable (according to the black swan paradigm: to verify the statement “All swans are white,” one has to observe all white swans, but one single observation of one single black swan is enough to falsify the statement). By starting from material evidence, manuscript analysis allows researchers to make interpretive statements that can be proven wrong.

  6. avant-texte

  7. avant-texte or genetic dossier

  8. *** THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol <eth> eht rof, Aiulella! (From on high the voice of Adonai calls) ADONAI Dooooooooooog!

  9. THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol eht rof, Aiulella! (From on high the voice of Adonai calls) ADONAI Dooooooooooog! *** THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! (From on high the voice of Adonai calls) ADONAI Goooooooooood!

  10. christopher.whalen@hertford.ox.ac.uk http://doingenglish.blogspot.com/

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