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A poetics of editing
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.
Details | Table of Contents
how names convey the value of editing
pp.3-31
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_1three types of mediation
pp.33-54
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_2the search for meaning
pp.55-78
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_3the emergence of modern editing
pp.83-113
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_4from postmodern idealism to new materialism
pp.143-173
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_6how practice is taught and studied
pp.175-198
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_7pp.251-253
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_10Publication 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.