{"product_id":"auteur-publishers-craig-j-saper-9781474454728","title":"Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing","description":"\u003ci\u003eAuteur Publishers\u003c\/i\u003e relocates authorial intention from the lone writer's vision to the publishers' arts and artisanal craft. Using the notion of auteurism, initially developed by François Truffaut to reframe authorship away from a script writer to a director's creative vision, this book looks at auteur-publishers working from the 1890s through to the present. These small independent book publishers acquired, designed and sometimes printed the books they published. Presses including William Morris with Way \u0026amp; Williams, Nancy Cunard's Hours Press, Kathleen Tankersley Young's The Modern Editions Press and Dick Higgin's Something Else Press played crucial roles in modern art and literary movements. Motivated by their idiosyncratic literary and aesthetic values, they cultivated publishing practices and, in retrospect, provide a lineage for publishers today: presses like Information As Material; Punctum Books; Siglio; Sublunary and Roving Eye Press are a few examples of the hundreds of small presses continuing the small press tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig J. Saper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474454720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474454728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Craig J. Saper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419764998399,"sku":"9781474454728","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_abfe3c0d-b0e4-4b7d-ba66-d390ffee9615.jpg?v=1761513706","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/auteur-publishers-craig-j-saper-9781474454728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}