‘CREATIVE EDITING IN LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM’ AS A DISCIPLINE OF STUDY IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Abstract

The article researches the functioning and implementing such a discipline as ‘Creative editing in publishing’ in bachelor’s and master’s programs of the USA, Great Britain, and Ukraine. The theory of creative editing in publishing goes beyond normative editing and proofreading. In spite of the lack of clear parameters, creative editing is taught at several universities in English-speaking countries, namely at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge, and has a number of features that characterize the theory of creative editing as a whole.
Given that a discipline with this title has not yet been implemented in Ukrainian higher educational institutions, where journalism and publishing are studied, there is a need to examine ‘creative editing of literary and journalistic works’ and identify its characteristic features.
In the English-speaking environment, creative editing, unlike normative editing, emphasizes the cooperation of an editor and an author for the sake of a better vision of all elements of the work: plot, images, characters, symbols, dialogues, chronotope, narrative, implicit meanings, etc. The editor can offer not only the improvement and proofreading of the form but also significant changes to the content of the work itself, including the additional use of some literary techniques, stylistic figures, or, on the contrary, their removal. Through the involvement of social networks, an editor can analyze the expectations of the audience and all feedback from the readers and advise an author to make additional changes in the following editions and sequels. At the same time, creative editing of literary works covers three components: development editing, linear editing, and literary editing.