Marginalia: Readers Writing in BooksYale University Press, 01/01/2001 - 324 páginas From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book--the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia--H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterizes the process of reading. For hundreds of years, readers have talked to other people in the margins of their books--not only to authors, but also to friends, lovers, and future generations. With an infectious enthusiasm for her subject, Jackson reflects on the cultural and historical value of writing in the margins, examines works that have invited passionate annotation, and presents examples of some of the most provocative marginalia. Imaginative, amusing, and poignant, this book will be treasured by--and maybe even annotated by--anyone who cares about reading. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 60
... Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley & Sons , Harrisonburg , Virginia . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Jackson , H. J. Marginalia : readers writing in books / H. J. Jackson . p . cm ...
... genius and not your own father from a fire ; and so on . At the end of the index , which is the last printed page , the annotator sums up the volume in her own words : nothing is no - no — everything is relative in introduction 3.
... printed books with readers ' notes in them— that resulted in the introduction of an actual cataloguing category , " Adv . , " in the 1930S . Cambridge had by then already published a slim bibliography , Henry Richards Luard's Catalogue ...
... printed in cheap formats for the poor , such as the chapbooks sold by itinerant peddlers and manuals of practical arts like farriery , give oc- casional glimpses of the practice of working - class readers . That most familiar and homely ...
... printed " Sheep's Head Broth " ( p . 13 ) —and a bonus slip recording bridge scores ( " We " and " They " ) besides . I have introduced a few examples from novels and poems for the insight they offer into people's attitudes toward ...
Índice
Physical Features | 18 |
History | 44 |
Motives for Marginalia | 81 |
Object Lessons | 101 |
Two Profiles | 149 |
Books for Fanatics | 179 |
Poetics | 204 |
Book Use or Book Abuse | 234 |
Afterword | 259 |
Notes | 267 |
287 | |
301 | |
Acknowledgments | 313 |
Index | 315 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
Referências a este livro
Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality Jonathan Gray Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |
Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self Patricia Meyer Spacks Pré-visualização indisponível - 2003 |