universiteit antwerpen - Centre for manuscript genetics

www.beckettarchive.org

The Centre for Manuscript Genetics (Universiteit Antwerpen) presents: the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. The first module offers a genetic essay and a genetic edition of Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word.

Current projects

Metafiction and the writing process. A genetic approach to 'autography' in Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone meurt, and L'Innommable. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2012 (BOF)
Beckett's library: reading traces and their interpretative implications. 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013 (FWO)
From 'black as ebony' to 'black as ink': The Dutch and Flemish variants of 'Snow White' in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. 01/07/2008 - 31/12/2012 (BOF)
Genesis of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks. 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2015

International cooperation

BDMP: Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. A collaboration between the CMG (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (Austin, Texas) and the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The development of this project started from two initiatives: (1) the 'in-house' genetic edition of four works by Samuel Beckett (a cooperation between the Universities of Antwerp and Reading), and (2) the Series of Variorum Editions of Samuel Beckett's Bilingual Works, initiated in 1986 by Charles Krance, with the permission and support of Samuel Beckett. With the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett, these initiatives were developed into the Beckett Digital Manuscript Archive, which combines genetic criticism with electronic scholarly editing, applied to the study of Beckett's manuscripts.
Cost Action A32 (ESF): Open Scholarly Communities on the web. Through this network, the CMG has organised a specialized workshop on "Genetic Criticism and Scholarly Edition" (September 2007), and presented an introduction entitled "Digitizing Authors' Libraries." COST is responsible for the European coordination of nationally subsidized research. Belgium signed this agreement on 6 April 2006.
ACUME2: Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities. This European Thematic Network Project (ETNP) is subdivided into 5 'subprojects,' the fifth of which focusses on "Reshaping Humanities through Applied Sciences." Through this network, the CMG has presented its research on the relation between Darwin's notes and his personal library in a lecture entitled "Authors' Libraries and Darwin's Reading Traces" (Warsaw, November 2007).
Cost Action IS0704: An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions (Interedition). This COST Action is closely related to the abovementioned COST Action A32. The COST National Coordinator for Belgium supports this cooperation since 7 February 2008

Completed projects

Publication 'The Making of Samuel Beckett's Stirring Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word, volume 1 van The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.' 07/02/2011 - 31/12/2011 (BOF)
Participation at the 'Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (FWO Vis.Postdoc.Fel., Anthony Cordingley, Australia, Univ.Rouen-France). 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2011 (FWO)
The Genesis of Samuel Beckett's novel Comment c'est / How It Is. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2010 (BOF)
Flemish cultural specificity in translation: empirical case-study. 19/01/2008 - 30/04/2009 (VL. INST.)
Decomposition: a genetic approach to literary multilingualism. 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010 (FWO)
Losing his religion: James Joyce and Religious Faith. 01/03/2006 - 31/12/2007 (BOF)
New perspectives on fairy tales. Research project on the intertextual dialogue between fairytale criticism and German, English and Dutch fairy-tale retellings in the period from 1970 to 2000. 01/10/2005 - 30/09/2007 (FWO,BOF)
Samuel Beckett's late bilingual works: manuscript genetics and electronic-critical edition. 01/05/2005 - 30/04/2009 (BOF)
James Joyce's reception in Eastern Europe: Comparative Approach (in relation to his reception in the West). 15/10/2004 - 14/09/2004 (BOF)
James Joyce: the genesis of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. 01/10/2003 - 15/03/2004 (VL.INST.)
Development of a Working Demo of the 'Proteus' Episode (Digital Ulysses). 01/04/2003 - 31/12/2003 (INT. INST.)
James Joyce's Work in Progress: Annotated Timeline. 01/01/2003 - 31/12/2006 (BOF)
Mediterranean Joyce. 01/10/2002 - 31/12/2004 (BOF)
Theoretical implications of electronic scholarly editing. 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2005 (FWO)
Samuel Beckett's Stirrings Still / Soubresauts: a bilingual genetic edition. 01/09/2001 - 31/08/2003 (BOF)
The influence of James Joyce on European literatures. 01/10/2000 - 30/09.2002 (BOF)
The narrative gaze of a poete maudit. 01/10/1999 - 30/09/2001 (FWO)
James Joyce & Co: Collaborative Authorship in Finnegans Wake. 01/10/1999 - 30/09/2000 (FWO)
Emancipation and imperialism: a study in literary theory. 28/02/1999 - 30/11/1999 (BOF)
Hypertext and the encyclopedic novel. 01/01/1998 - 31/12/1999 (BOF)
Electronic edition of James Joyce's 'red-backed notebook'. 01/01.1998 - 31/12/1998 (FED. INST.)
Transcription and edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake notebooks. 01/11/1997 - 30/10/1999 (BOF)
The narrative gaze of a poete maudit. 01/10/1997 - 30/09/1999 (FWO)
Books on genetic theory. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1997 (BOF)
Garland archive of the early works of James Joyce. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1997 (BOF)
Socio-cultural interface between the Antwerp Jewish community and the Province of Antwerp after 1945. 01/01/1997 - 31/12/1997 (PROV/STAD)
The modernist text: a genetic approach. 01/01/1996 - 31/12/1997 (FWO)
Gender and genre in the second half of the nineteenth century. An analysis of the way genre is gendered in the literary field. 01/07/1995 - 30/06/1997 (BOF)
The Frontiers of Modernism. 01/01/1995 - 31/12/1998 (BOF)
Critical edition of Joyce's Finnegans Wake workbooks. 01/01/1993 - 31/12/1994 (FWO)
A critical edition of Finnegans Wake Notebooks VI.B.25, VI.B.9 and VI.B.7: establishment of the text, full transcription. 01/01/1993 - 31/12/1993 (BOF)