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Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris the Archive
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Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris the Archive
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Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris the Archive
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considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection letter, a disagreement with a collaborator, or the simple act of walking away from one's desk-can change the way we think about cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life.