The art of editing : Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace /: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- The art of editing : Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace /: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The art of editing : Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace
- Further Information:
- Note: Tim Groenland.
- Authors:
- Groenland, Tim
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'Stuff that editors do'; 'Why not just have the editor write the book?': Random House versus Joan Collins; 'Imagining what a text can be': Understanding the editor's role; 'The workings of the work': Behind the stable text; Posthumous editing and the question of audience; Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace: From Minimalism to maximalism; Beyond the Minimal Mambo: The return of maximalism; 'An artist, not a minimalist': Wallace on Carver; 2 'My only fear is that it is too thin': The roots of the Carver controversy 'Spare, austere, stately': The beginnings of Carver and Lish's collaboration'A milestone, a turning point': The development of 'Neighbors'; 'The instant you offer an explanation is the instant you have sentimentality': Lish's changes to Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?; Compression and consecution: 'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?'; 'The dark of the American heart': Defining Carver's vision; 3 Minimalism in action: Making What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; 'My very sanity is on the line here': The textual history Staying inside the house: From 'Beginners' to 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'Little human connections: From 'A Small, Good Thing' to 'The Bath'; 'Too abrupt?': Rewriting 'Friendship'; 'A total rewrite': Human connection in 'If It Please You'; 'Low-rent tragedies': The critical legacy; 4 'It is his world and no other': Gordon Lish, authorship andCover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'Stuff that editors do'; 'Why not just have the editor write the book?': Random House versus Joan Collins; 'Imagining what a text can be': Understanding the editor's role; 'The workings of the work': Behind the stable text; Posthumous editing and the question of audience; Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace: From Minimalism to maximalism; Beyond the Minimal Mambo: The return of maximalism; 'An artist, not a minimalist': Wallace on Carver; 2 'My only fear is that it is too thin': The roots of the Carver controversy 'Spare, austere, stately': The beginnings of Carver and Lish's collaboration'A milestone, a turning point': The development of 'Neighbors'; 'The instant you offer an explanation is the instant you have sentimentality': Lish's changes to Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?; Compression and consecution: 'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?'; 'The dark of the American heart': Defining Carver's vision; 3 Minimalism in action: Making What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; 'My very sanity is on the line here': The textual history Staying inside the house: From 'Beginners' to 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'Little human connections: From 'A Small, Good Thing' to 'The Bath'; 'Too abrupt?': Rewriting 'Friendship'; 'A total rewrite': Human connection in 'If It Please You'; 'Low-rent tragedies': The critical legacy; 4 'It is his world and no other': Gordon Lish, authorship and Minimalism; Declaring literary independence: Cathedral; 'Winner's history': Coming to terms with Carver's texts; A different kind of bleeding: Lish and Minimalism; 'He took what he needed': Carver and Gallagher 5 'Your devoted editee': David Foster Wallace and Michael Pietsch'Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it': Editing Wallace3; 'My gut tells me you can help me': Wallace's work with Pietsch; 'Playful combat': The editing of Infinite Jest; 'I feel like I know him, and I trust him, and that's priceless': After Infinite Jest; 6 Consider the editor: Assembling The Pale King; 'No kind of order': Assembling The Pale King; 'Fragmentco Unltd': 'Cede' and The Pale King; Fragments and variants: The Pale King's multiple editions; Dead ends and reroutings: Understanding Wallace's fluid text 7 'Magical compression': Wallace's return to Minimalism'Clarity, precision, plainness, lucidity': The value of compression; 'Not another word': Reticence and reserve; 'The monk's cell and the hermit's cave': Wallace's 'Via Negativa'; 8 The anxiety of editorial influence; 'The handwriting business': Carver's editorial anxiety; 'What if this book just isn't supposed to be all that long?': Editing and anxiety in The Pale King; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 808.02/7
Editing
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Fiction -- Technique
Authorship
Authors and publishers
Authorship
Editing
Fiction -- Technique
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Electronic books
Electronic books
Criticism and interpretation
Criticism and interpretation - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781501338281
1501338285 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781501338274
1501338277 - Notes:
- Note: Print version record.
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