The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America

• Main Author: Foley, Abram
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 31.08.2021
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Communication Studies; Editing-History-20th century; Editing-History-21st century; Language & Literature; Literature publishing-United States-History-20th century; Literature publishing-United States-History-21st century; Literature, Experimental-United States-History and criticism

Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history 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 s...