A Poetics of Editing

• Main Author: Greenberg, Susan L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Books-History.; Literary Theory.; History of the 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,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.