After reading McGann's Intro and Chp. 1 of "The Textual Condition," I couldn't help but be reminded of a New Yorker article I once read regarding Raymond Carver's relationship with his editor, Gordon Lish. You can read it here. Basically, Carver felt that Lish had edited his stories down too much, so that it felt like it was no longer Carver's authorial voice coming through the text, but Lish's.
Judge for yourselves by reading the differences between the "original" and the "edited" stories.
Raymond Carver's original story
The edited story
Understandably, this goes in a different direction than what I understand McGann is saying in this week's assigned reading, but I couldn't help but think that it might be applicable to our discussion tomorrow.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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