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ConclusionFrom the Platonic myth of writing to the twentieth century theories of text,writing has crossed a history of confrontation with the surrounding world ofcontextualization and recontextualization. Modernist literary experiments havepushed writing into the realm of self-reflexivity already confirmed by Barthes’Writing Degree Zero. The editing process has been facing various challengesto keep pace with them, as well. From the concrete poetry volumes to the lastartbook experiments, editors deal with other physical instantiations of text:visual, sonorous, kinetic, or functional in a way that diminishes the role ofwriting to make room for other meaningful nontextual expression. At this turningpoint in the culture of writing Blanchot’s words make an alluring prediction:To write without “writing,” to bring literature to that point of absence whereit disappears, where we no longer have to dread its secrets, which are lies, thatis “the degree zero of writing,” the neutrality that every writer seeks deliberatelyor without realizing it, and which leads some of them to silence. 181Jacques Derrida. Dissemination. Translated by Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1981, p. 23.2Jacques Derrida. Writing and Differance. Translated by Alan Bass. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1978, p. 230.3John Kidd. “The Scandal of ‘Ulysses’” in The New York Review of Books. Volume 35,number 11, June 1988.4Randall McLeod. “Gerard Hopkins and the Shapes if His Sonnets” in Voice, Text, Hypertext.Emergin Practices in Textual Studies. Raimonda Modiano, Leroy F. Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg(eds). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003, 177-297.5Op.cit., 262.6Randall McLeod. “Obliterature. Reading a Censored Text of Donne’s ‘To his mistressgoing to bed’”. In English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, volume 12, Scribes and Transmissionin English Manuscripts 1400-1700. Beal, Peter, and Edwards, A.S.G. (eds). The British Library,2005, 85-138.7E.D. Hirsch. “In Defense of the Author” in Validity in Interpretation. Yale: Yale UniversityPress, 1967, p. 8.8Randall McLeod. “Editing Shakespeare” in Clod, Random [Randall McLeod.]. "InformationUpon Information." Text 5, 1991, 241-81.9Infinitive text recalls Jack Stillinger’s theory of versions, equally important and valid: “allauthoritative versions are equally authoritative”.10Patrick Fuery. The Theory of Absence. Subjectivity, Signification, and Desire. Westport:Greenwood Press, 1995, 103.11Marta Werner. Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995, 2.12Marta Werner. Writing’s Other Scene, 206.13Hans Zeller. “A New Approach to the Critical Constitution of Literary Texts” in Studies inBibliography, vol. 28, 1979, 261.14Jerome McGann. “The Garden of Forking Paths. What is Critical Editing” in TextualCondition. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1991, 86.15Ibidem, 6316Ibidem, 66.17McGann, 146.18Maurice Blanchot. The Book to Come. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 2003, 207.Ex Ponto nr.3, 200687