A Poetics of Editing

TY - BOOK

T1 - A Poetics of Editing

AU - Greenberg, Susan L.

N1 - This monograph is a substantive redevelopment of my doctoral thesis, awarded by UCL in 2014. The thesis is held on its repository under an indefinite embargo.

PY - 2018/9/13

Y1 - 2018/9/13

N2 - A first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts, which proposes a materialist poetics informed by debates about a ‘new materialism’. 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. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the ‘ideal editor’ can be understood as part of the relationship with the long-theorised author and reader. While the traditional perception of editing is as the imposition of closure, this work shows how it can work as a dynamic process with a sense of the possible.

AB - A first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts, which proposes a materialist poetics informed by debates about a ‘new materialism’. 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. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the ‘ideal editor’ can be understood as part of the relationship with the long-theorised author and reader. While the traditional perception of editing is as the imposition of closure, this work shows how it can work as a dynamic process with a sense of the possible.

KW - editing

KW - publishing

KW - poetics

KW - literary theory

KW - book history

KW - information studies

KW - Communication

KW - digital humanities

UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319922454

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1

M3 - Book

SN - 978-3-319-92245-4

SN - 978-3-030-06392-4

BT - A Poetics of Editing

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Basingstoke

ER -