Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, Faculty of English Language and Literature, will speak on
The Sous-Oeuvre and Digital Scholarly Editing: Voltaire in Beckett’s Books
“To find out why a literary oeuvre ‘works’, it is crucial to know how it was made. Underneath the oeuvre we therefore need to unearth the elements of a work that are traditionally buried in the endnotes and ‘apparatus’ of a critical edition in print. The digital medium offers new opportunities to edit both the oeuvre and the so-called sous-oeuvre (Connolly, 2018). Both scholarly editing and genetic criticism can benefit from such a rapprochement. To illustrate this, the lecture will explore the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and discover traces of Voltaire in Beckett’s sous-oeuvre.”
The event is free to attend, but please register with email@voltaire.ox.ac.uk to secure a place.