Forlagsredaktørers vurderingspraksis : skjønnsutøvelse som håndverk
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Oterholm, K. & Skjerdingstad, K.I. (2013). Forlagsredaktørers vurderingspraksis : skjønnsutøvelse som håndverk. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift, 16(2), 106-127Sammendrag
The editor as a craftsman – on aesthetical judgment as practice.
In this article, we explore how quality assessment takes place in practice. Based on in-depth interviews with
editors working with contemporary literature in major Norwegian publishing houses, we show how judgment may
be understood in terms of a craft. We argue that as craftsmen (Sennett, 2008) these editors work with three
reading strategies. Firstly, reading for a standard establishing criteria that bind and hold a material together,
secondly, reading cautiously for metaphors directed towards articulating the (non-verbal, tacit) experience and
thirdly, reading with a belief that is hesitant, uncertain and exploring. Thus we formulate an understanding of
literary quality which both recognizes the subjective as a non-random requisite and the need for an objective basis
– an understanding of how judgment and assessment is practiced