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A poetics of editing

Susan L. Greenberg

Abstract

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the "ideal editor" can be understood in relation to the long-theorised author and reader. The book's premise is that editing, like other forms of "making", is mostly invisible and can only be brought into full view through a comparative analysis that includes the insights of practitioners. The argument, laid down in careful layers, is supported by a panoramic historical narrative that tracks the shifts in textual authority from religious and secular institutions to the romanticised self of the digital present. The dangers posed by the anti-editing rhetoric of this hybrid romanticism are confronted head-on. To the traditional perception of editing as the imposition of closure, A Poetics of Editing adds a perspective on a dynamic process with a sense of the possible.

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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2018

Pages: 265

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-92245-4

ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-92246-1

Full citation:

Greenberg Susan L. (2018) A poetics of editing. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.