Textual Awareness

Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce''s Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust''s À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann''s Doktor Faustus and relates these to Anglo-American, French, and German theories of text. By rel...