A poetics of editing / Susan L. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Editing--Philosophy.

Editing.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Part I. Definitions, descriptions, and comparisons. The midwife and the janitor : how names convey the value of editing

Translations of the invisible : three types of mediation

Editing and mind : the search for meaning

Part II. History, time and change. An expectation of error : the emergence of modern editing

Editing in the digital present

Part III. Theory frames. Editing and the real : from postmodern idealism to new materialism

Editing in the academy : how practice is taught and studied

Anti-editing and the digital romantics

A poetics of editing

Coda.

ISBN:

3319922459

9783319922454

OCLC:

1032589121