DeepDyve eBooks - A Poetics of Editing

The Midwife and the Janitor: How Names Convey the Value of Editing

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 3 –31

[The study and theorisation of editing has been fragmented. It is a circular problem: the practice is invisible and so ill-defined, but the lack of a clear identity sustains the invisibility. Names are not purely functional; they reflect cultural values and give substance to ideas that might...

Available

Translations of the Invisible: Three Types of Mediation

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 33 –54

[In this chapter, Greenberg’s working definition of editing is tested against three points of comparison: the parallels between editing another person’s work and revision of one’s own text; written language and the mediation of visual languages such as film; and finally, editing during the...

Available

Editing and Mind: The Search for Meaning

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 55 –78

[This chapter offers a unique cross-cutting account of writing and editing drawn from psychoanalysis, neurology, cognitive science and the philosophy of language. Greenberg’s original argument is that we cannot fully understand editing, either in theory or in practice, without understanding how...

Available

An Expectation of Error: The Emergence of Modern Editing

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 83 –113

[The chapter brings material together for the first time to identify acts of editing through time, demonstrating the consistent ambiguity that comes with the role, and the elusiveness of ‘fixity’. Focusing on the long nineteenth century, it pinpoints the emergence of a distinct professional...

Available

Editing in the Digital Present

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 115 –139

[The story told here about the recent past is one of continuous interaction between present and past, as new ‘affordances’ throw up new forms of selection, shaping and linking. The chapter follows acts of editing as they travel to new places in the circuit of communication, expressed in evolving...

Available

Editing and the Real: From Postmodern Idealism to New Materialism

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 143 –173

[In this chapter, Greenberg evaluates the capacity of different interpretive frames to make sense of editing practice. In a panoramic view of intellectual history, the chapter tracks the shifting fortunes of ideas as they swing between idealism and materialism. In the idealist tradition, the...

Available

Editing in the Academy: How Practice Is Taught and Studied

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 175 –198

[The chapter looks at the academy as a place where the messiness of practice tests the limits of conceptual boundaries and considers the disciplines in which editing is taught or studied in some form; in creative writing, for example, an expectation of self-editing is written into the subject...

Available

Anti-Editing and the Digital Romantics

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 199 –224

[Discussions about digital media can take an evangelical tone, associated with futurological figures of thought. Greenberg characterises this as a hybrid romanticism specific to digital culture which both reflects and creates new forms of alienation, expressed in genres that call for partisanship...

Available

A Poetics of Editing

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 225 –250

[To bring editing into full view, and sustain the potential for experimentation and reinvention, Greenberg offers a new poetics of the editing arts. This is an articulation of principles for a concrete form of making as well a broader perspective on the production of texts. The new poetics, which...

Available

Coda

Greenberg, Susan L.

Pages: 251 –253

[Although editing will not disappear, there is still an argument to be had about its value, both for publishing professionals and for the wider culture. In this short concluding chapter, Greenberg reminds us of the potential for development in the discipline of Publishing and a proposed new field...

Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Poetics of Editing

Advanced Search

Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Poetics of Editing

Our policy towards the use of cookies