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Title

Nothing Left to Lose: Of, Changes in Literary Editing and the Decline of Civilization as We Know It

Authors

Joel Myerson, University of South CarolinaFollow

Date of this Version

12-1998

Document Type

Article

Citation

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 4, December 1998.

ISSN 2476-1796 (electronic); ISSN 2167-1451 (print)

Comments

1998 © the Association for Documentary Editing. Used by permission.

Abstract

My title is somewhat facetious, but not completely. There has been a profound shift in the direction and underlying assumptions of editorial theory and practice during the thirty years in which I have been practicing this craft, and my purpose here is to make some general observations on this topic. I start with a warning, though: most of my comments apply to textual or literary editing, not to documentary editing as it is practiced by literary editors.