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Dirk Van Hulle, Genetic Criticism: Tracing creativity in literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Genetic criticism (critique genetique) emerged from the practice of publishing texts of modern fiction in France in the 1970s. At the international conference Avant-texte, texte, aprè-texte, held in Mátrafüred in 1978, the most important French representatives of genetic criticism (Louis Hay, Jean Bellemin-Noël, Raymonde Debray-Genette, Almut Gressillon, and Jean Lebrave) gave lectures alongside the Hungarian participants. The proceedings of the conference were published in French by Édition du CNRS and Akadémiai Kiadó in 1982, edited by Loius Hay and Péter Nagy.[1] This direct contact may have been one of the reasons why the reception of genetic criticism in Hungarian literary studies was relatively lively from the early 1980s, in contrast with the “lukewarm reception” of Anglo-American criticism, as Van Hulle discusses in his book (19–24.).
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