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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- Book Title
- The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America
- Genre
- Business, Economics & Industry
- Topic
- Books
- ISBN
- 9781517911676
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
1517911672
ISBN-13
9781517911676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050404453
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Editor Function : Literary Publishing in Postwar America
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Editing & Proofreading, Publishing, Communication Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
" The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley's meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality--and the elusiveness--of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."--Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature "If early modern Europe saw the 'author function' assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."--Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography, " The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley's meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality--and the elusiveness--of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."--Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature "If early modern Europe saw the 'author function' assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."--Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography "Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [ The Editor Function ] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present."-- College Research Libraries
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
070.50973
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction: The Editor Function 1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson's Letters to Editors 2. Editing and the Institution: John O'Brien and Dalkey Archive Press 3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone 4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love Dick Coda: Editing and Entropy Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?" proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate "editorial/industrial complex." Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how. The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman's Origin and Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States. The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors--routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation--emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.
LC Classification Number
Z473
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