{"product_id":"a-poetics-of-editing-9783030063924","title":"A Poetics of Editing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan L. Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Editing \u003c\/i\u003eadds a perspective on a dynamic process with a sense of the possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45281290911895,"sku":"9783030063924","price":4186.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030063924.webp?v=1769298797","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-poetics-of-editing-9783030063924","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}