Overview
Adds a perspective to the traditional perception of editing as the policing of error, or the imposition of judgment and closure, as a dynamic process with a built-in understanding of failure and a sense of the possible
Argues that its subject’s elusiveness can only be addressed through a sustained and determinedly comparative analysis that takes the long view and fully integrates the insights of practitioners
Offers a first attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts: an approach that denigrates neither practice nor theory but brings them into dialogue with each other
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Definitions, Descriptions, and Comparisons
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History, Time and Change
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Susan L. Greenberg is Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Roehampton, UK, and programme convener for the department’s MA Publishing, following a long career in journalism and media. She holds a PhD in Publishing from University College London and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Publications include Editors Talk About Editing (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Poetics of Editing
Authors: Susan L. Greenberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92245-4Published: 13 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06392-4Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92246-1Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, History of the Book