Fluid Text A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen

Name: Fluid Text A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen
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ISBN: 9780472068159

ISBN-10: 0472068156

ISBN-13: 9780472068159

Edition: 2002

Authors: John L. Bryant

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Theorists, scholars, and critics usually consider literary works to be fixed objects, assuming that any variations in the text of a work should be stabilized, reduced, eliminated. John Bryant urges that these variations create valuable records of the interactions between the artist and society. Preprint revisions, revised editions, adaptations for film, and expurgations for children are among the many forms of flux that shape literary works and position them relative to their audiences. Fully understanding the life of a literary work in its cultural situation requires recognizing the fluidity of text, and the present work makes the first coherent theoretical, critical, and editorial…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 10/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Fluid Text


The Textual Debate: Intended Texts and Social Texts


Work as Concept: Intentionalist Historicism and the Ontology of Literary Work


Work as Energy: Materialist Historicism and the Poetics of Social Text


The Fluid Text Moment: Versions of the Version


Readers and Revision


The Pleasures of the Fluid Text


Editing the Fluid Text: Agenda and Praxis


Coda: America as Fluid Text


Notes


Index