Crystal words: subject, meaning and versions in the discursive process of books reformulation

Abstract

The theoretical field of Discourse Analysis stands at the basis of the present discussion on the discursive process for reformulation of books. By focusing on the axis subject-meaning-versions – with a punctual emphasis on the socio-historical mechanisms, which constitute the work of authorship –, here one tries to make explicit how the enunciative event (INDURSKY, 2008), once it is responsible for the emergence of the so called “revised edition,” affects the enunciable proper to a certain discursive formation, and reconfigures the memory networks. The subject-author, caught within the web of historical contradictions in which he constitutes himself, enters in a play of repeat-dislocate-forget. The reflection here developed acquires an overtone when the polemical identity of the “revised edition” is dealt with at the final considerations.