Marginalia: Readers Writing in BooksYale University Press, 1 jan 2001 - 324 pagina's 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. |
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... original , perhaps not even directly rel- evant to the text at hand . Nevertheless they are valued as a contemporary response , and may be valued all the more , nowadays , for being the work of nameless readers . The same criteria could ...
... original . But many depart from this rule , without agreeing in any other , as I fbake , I fbook , I have fbaken , or fbook as it is fome- times written in poetry ; I make , I made , I have made ; I bring , I brought ; I wring , I wrung ...
... original discursive notes that express a reaction to the text or an opin- ion about it , as opposed to the minimal and equivocal witness of the question mark or cross , the use of blank spaces as scrap paper ( as in the Johnson example ...
... original readers ' notes of the kind I am concerned with are rare before 1700 and increasingly com- mon ( in relation to other forms of annotation ) thereafter . During the pe- riod from about 1750 to 1820 , this kind of writing ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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 |
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Acknowledgments | 313 |
Index | 315 |
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