{"product_id":"the-editor-function-literary-publishing-in-postwar-america-hardback-9781517911669","title":"The Editor Function; Literary Publishing in Postwar America (Hardback) 9781517911669","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary Publishing in Postwar America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAbram Foley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517911669\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 10 black \u0026amp; whilte illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.422 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eabsence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself.\"-Craig Dworkin, author of \u003ci\u003eDictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [\u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present.\"-\u003ci\u003eCollege \u0026amp; Research Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eOrigin\u003c\/i\u003e and Nathaniel Mackey’s \u003ci\u003eHambone\u003c\/i\u003e to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Editor Function\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Editor Function\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson’s Letters to Editors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Editing and the Institution: John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's \u003ci\u003eHambone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoda: Editing and \u003ci\u003eEntropy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619255808280,"sku":"9781517911669","price":60.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-editor-function-literary-publishing-in-postwar-america-hardback-9781517911669","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}