Acknowledgments
Introduction : Genetic criticism and the creative process / William Kinderman
Part One. Texts, variants, and variations : evolving contexts in literature and theater. 1. From varieties of genetic experience to radical philology / Geert Lernout
2. Variant and variation : toward a Freudo-bathmologico-Bakhtino-Goodmanian genetic model? / Daniel Ferrer
3. The genetic record of a voice : variants in Barthes's Le Plaisir du texte / Armine Kotin Mortimer
4. Can genetic criticism be applied to the performing arts? / Jean-Louis Lebrave
5. "The hardy Laurel" : Beckett and early film comedy / Robert B. Graves
Part Two. Genetic processes in music : from Beethoven to Leroux. 6. From melodic patterns to themes : the sketches for the original version of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, Op. 53 / Alan Gosman
7. From conceptual image to realization : some thoughts on Beethoven's sketches / Lewis Lockwood
8. The process within the product : exploratory transitional passages in Beethoven's late quartet sketches / Peter McCallum
9. "They only give rise to misunderstandings" : Mahler's sketches in context / James L. Zychowicz
10. A study of Richard Strauss's creative process : Der Rosenkavalier's "Presentation scene" and "Schlussduett" / Joseph E. Jones
11. Genetic criticism and cognitive anthropology : a reconstruction of Philippe Leroux's compositional process for Voi(rex) / Nicolas Donin
List of contributors
Index.