Still quite new to the critical world, genetic criticism is the study of authors' drafts and manuscripts. Whereas textual criticism aims to establish definitive versions, genetic criticism looks at everything that gets discarded along the way to a final text.

Genetic Criticism and its Logics offers a series of enchantingly nugatory chapters of argument and philosophy that serve to illuminate this controversial new branch of criticism. It is meant for readers at any stage of the genetic journey--from the keen to the curious, and from the not yet convinced to the seriously sceptical or dismissive. All of them, it is guaranteed, will find they are delighted as well as informed by Daniel Ferrer's writing. For the novice in literary criticism, too, the book will open up new worlds of possible questions as well as a specific new field of thinking.