Bushell (English and creative writing, Lancaster U., England) focuses on the literary text before it becomes a completed work of art: the draft materials that embody text as process. Generally, she says, scholars have consulted such material, and the process itself, only in order to clarify some matter, or buttress a particular viewpoint, regarding the finished product. She thinks now is the time to recognize them for their own worth. She seeks here to explain the nature of the text in a state of process and its status relative to the completed work, and to develop a critical method and a hermeneutics for interpreting the text in this state. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)