Revised and enlarged edition: editorial production as an artistic and a literary genre

• Main Author: Sofia Gonçalves
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SOBRE LAB. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad de Granada 2016-07-01
• Series: SOBRE. Prácticas artísticas y políticas de la edición
• Subjects: producción editorial; edición; género; postproducción; montaje
• Online Access: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/sobre/article/view/5048

The appropriation of the expression «revised and enlarged edition», from the traditional publishing jargon, is presented in this article as a hypotheses to characterize contemporary publishing practices. It consid- ers the publication, in all its stages, as a writing space and as a process that never resigns creativity and criticism.<br />These practices are «revised» (revisited) because they imply the problematization of practice, through an exploratory attitude or critic, leading to processes and discourses prepared for a permanent review. And «en- larged» because they expand the operations of each editorial production phase, they iden- tify alternative formats and models, they blur traditional roles (author/editor/designer/ reader) and question editing as a mere me- diation for the creation, circulation, reception or reading processes. In this article, we will identify some of the principles and emerging phenomena that help us understand editorial production as an artistic or a literary genre.