E is for Editorial

Abstract

As the editorial for the first of these double issues has already shown, it has been difficult to decide how to organise the different contributions into two issues – how should we split them up? How should we order them? And then what would be a good way to introduce them in an editorial? Rather than give an overview of what is to come by signposting the order of the issues themselves, as is more conventional, for this issue we decided to draw out notable trends and aspects in stand-alone form and order them in the fashion of an abecedary. While this loses the traditionally developed linearity of a text (admittedly the order here is somewhat artificially imposed by the alphabet), it gains clear short sections that are subtitled to allow dipping into the text and identifying areas of interest. We have used ALL CAPS to denote names of entries to show linkages and wherever we make reference to an article in these two issues, have given the page number and the letter E (for this issue – the Egg – and C for the accompanying issue – the Chicken). As the editorial of the sister issue (C ?) takes the form of a more traditional one, we hope that readers will read both and in comparing them be able to reflect on the affordances of GENRES using these examples.