A Poetics of Editing
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 bo
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SUSAN L. GREENBERG
A Poetics of Editing
Susan L. Greenberg
A Poetics of Editing
Susan L. Greenberg University of Roehampton Roehampton, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-92245-4 ISBN 978-3-319-92246-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946161 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Charman Clark/EyeEm/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Writing is thought in performance, a weaving of words into the cloth of text, the linking of otherwise random images and ideas, via language, into something that can be understood by others. It is a practice that presents many challenges if it is to be done successfully, hence the importance of rewriting and revision of a text (by the author) and editing (by someone else). The struggles of the author to meet such a challenge already feature hugely in both popular and academic accounts, but our view of those who perform acts of editing is unclear or fragmented. The specific role becomes lost in other larger identities; analysis of the practice is scattered across academic disciplines, historical periods and technologies. A similar fate seems to befall other forms of mediation, and this book argues that there may be something inherent about being in the ‘middle’ that provokes confusion or ambivalence. But it also identifies the ways in which the topos of ‘editing’ does its own specific work as a way of understanding the world, even if that is by negation, a metonym for an opposed ‘other’. A Poetics of Editing started out as an attempt to understand the professional
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