UID:
almahu_9947967283202882
Format:
XV, 265 p. 13 illus.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9783319922461
Content:
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.
Note:
1. The midwife and the janitor -- 2. Translations of the invisible -- 3. Editing and mind -- 4. An expectation of error -- 5. The digital present -- 6. Editing and the real -- 7. Editing in the academy -- 8.The digital romantics -- 9. A poetics of editing.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783319922454
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1
