The editor function : literary publishing in postwar America / Abram Foley.

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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 "edito...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foley, Abram (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Literature publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature publishing > United States > History > 21st century.
Editing > History > 20th century.
Editing > History > 21st century.
Literature, Experimental > United States > History and criticism.
Editing.
Literature publishing.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson's Letters to Editors
  • Editing and the Institution: John O'Brien and Dalkey Archive Press
  • Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone
  • Editing and Eros: Chirs Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love Dick
  • Coda: Editing and Entropy.