In:Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
[Not in series 194] 2015
► pp. 127–150
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From writing under production to the finished product
A processual threshold
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Published online: 5 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.194.07fen
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.194.07fen
The study of manuscripts allows us to analyze the initial materialization of textuality, that is, the way in which text mass/material is built up, then the way in which an actual text is constructed that can then be turned into a book. This issue raises several questions: By what process are the enunciative forms constructed? Given the diachrony of the graphic delinearization brought about by successive additions and revisions, how does the author maintain enunciative linearity?Through the analysis of the manuscripts of Pascal Quignard, Emile Benveniste and Ferdinand de Saussure, we show that while the product of the writing act is always linear, the writing process is never linear.
Keywords: Benveniste, de Saussure, delinearization, enunciation, manuscript, Quignard
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