Genetic editing

Not to be confused with Gene editing.

Genetic editing (French critique génétique; German genetische Kritik; Spanish crítica genética) is a scholarly approach to editing that focuses on tracing the creative process behind a work. Instead of treating a single manuscript as a finished product, genetic editing views it as part of a larger collection of drafts, notes, and revisions. An exemplar is seen as derived from a dossier of other manuscripts and events.

This approach seeks to reconstruct the sequence of actions and transformations that led to the final version, such as writing, erasing, cutting and pasting, annotating, quoting, or correcting. The derivation can be through physical cut and paste; writing or drawing in a variety of media; quotation, annotation or correction; acts of physical defacement; etc. When multiple manuscripts or media are involved, genetic editing aims to show how different elements were combined and how the text evolved through successive stages of creation. Genetic editing aims to reconstruct the sequence of actions on the manuscript and exactly which parts of the manuscript were acted upon where multiple manuscripts have been combined.

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