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A field guide to the trade and art of editing, this book pulls back
the curtain on the day-to-day responsibilities of a literary
magazine editor in their role, and to the specific skills necessary
to read, mark-up and transform a piece of writing. Combining a
break-down of an editor's tasks - including creating a vision,
acquisitions, responding to submissions and corresponding with
authors - with a behind-the-scenes look at manuscripts in progress,
the book rounds up with a test editing section that teaches, by way
of engaging exercises, the nitty-gritty strategies and techniques
for working on all kinds of texts. Generous in its insight and
access to practicing editors' annotations and thought processes,
The Invisible Art of Literary Editing offers an exclusive look at
nonfiction, fiction and poetry manuscripts as they were first
submitted, as they were marked up by an editor and how the final
piece was presented before featuring an interview with the editor
on the choices they made about that piece of work, as well as their
philosophies and working practices in their job. As a skill and a
trade learnt through practice and apprenticeship, this is the
ultimate companion to editing any piece of work, offering
opportunities for learning-by-doing through exercises, reflections
and cases studies, and inviting readers to embody the role of an
editor to improve their craft and demystify the processes involved
in this exciting and highly coveted profession.
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"A gripping family saga. . . . Page-turners are rarely written by
scholars of the 15th century, but Castor wears her learning
admirably lightly. Blood and Roses is nothing less than a ripping
yarn." --The Indepedent (London) The Wars of the Roses tore England
asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their
thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their
heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with
gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary
people who lived through this extraordinary time. Blood and Roses
is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting
everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society
and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered
in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs
the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of
births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their
way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle
of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy
era to vibrant new life.
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have?
What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are
some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music,
song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this
book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it
investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by
fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an
ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a
bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that
text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in
dialogue with 'contemporary' debates - contemporary with debates in
the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with
modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a
human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.
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