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Editors, scholars, and the social text / edited by Darcy Cullen.

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Editors, scholars, and the social text / edited by Darcy Cullen.
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.

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Cullen, Darcy, 1974-
Description
xx, 281 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Explores the theories and practices of editing, the processes of production and reproduction, and the relationships between authors and texts as well as that between manuscripts and books to offer insight into the past and future of academic communication.
Series Statement
Studies in book and print culture
Uniform Title
Studies in book and print culture
Subject
  • Editors
  • Editing
  • Scholars
  • Criticism, Textual
  • Transmission of texts
  • Books
  • Éditeurs
  • Édition
  • Savants
  • Critique textuelle
  • Transmission de textes
  • Livres
  • Publishing
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Includes some text in French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: the social dynamics of scholarly editing / Darcy Cullen -- A slight conflict of aims: scholarly vs. academic editing / Peter L. Shillingsburg -- The mysterious relationship: authors and their editors / Rosemary Shipton -- Juggling expectations: the copyeditor's roles and responsibilities / Amy Einsohn -- Bad texts: an eccentric appreciation (Valdez, Brecht, and the utility of error) / Alexander Pettit -- From book to text: theory of/in the margins / Peter Mahon -- Merely conventional signs: the editor and the illustrated scholarly book / Camilla Blakeley -- Let's ask the designers! Book design, technology, and the editor-designer collaboration / Richard Hendel, Sigrid Albert -- Iconic pages in Robert Antoni's fictions: a speculative edition / John K. Young -- Reading material bibliography and digital editions / Yuri Cowan -- The object and the process; or, Take this book and click it! / Darcy Cullen.
ISBN
  • 9781442641044 (bound)
  • 1442641045 (bound)
  • 9781442610392 (pbk.)
  • 1442610395 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 768793273
  • SCSB-12122588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library