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Bezig met laden... Marginalia (2001)door H.J. Jackson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Thoroughly enjoyable discussion of the centuries old practice of writing comments in the margins of printed books. I certainly learned some fascinating history although I was chiefly interested in the topic as an indicator of engagement in a reader's experience with a particular text. The style is clear rather than dense (if you worry about what you'll encounter in a publication from Yale University Press. The author's organization is interesting, but not always clear, making the book a bit difficult to follow. That being said, each chapter is interesting in its own right. The basic arrangement is thematic, rather than chronological. This leads to some repetition of examples, but the notes include intratextual references that help. The examples are numerous, but somewhat skewed to the 18th and 19th centuries. There are fewer examples or case studies from the 20th century. This is somewhat explained by the shift in attitude about marginalia being "defacement" rather than enhancement. I am already interested in marginalia for the various reasons given by the author and therefore recommend the book to anyone else similarly interested. The author is certainly a literary critic rather than a historian per se, but there is a great deal of historical information that will lead an interested reader to a lot of other work(s). Jackson is indebted to theories of social construction, though her theoretical views are never to the fore of the work. The ideas of constructed social spaces or situations and the need to understand context place her work within the realm of postmodern (or at least new historicist) criticism. The notes are end notes, arranged by page number ranges. I personally hate end notes, but they are worth the effort of marking your place and flipping to them. Many are discursive rather than simple citations. I greatly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading others by this author. I am not a fan of the long 18th century but this is the latest book to make me strongly reconsider my bias and expand my reading interests. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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-Guilt at what they cost
-Guilt at the space they take up
-Guilt at damaging them
‘Earlier readers also experienced some guilt associated with their practice of annotation’, page 74
As for motivations, page 76, ‘All narratives in which names have had to be concealed - satires, secret histories, romans a clef, allegories - invite knowing readers to reveal them’.
page 77,‘every annotated book is singular and potentially instructive’.
page 82 ‘The writer of marginalia acts on the impulse to stop reading for long enough to record a comment’.
That is exactly what I was doing now but using a separate device, my I-phone to copy this sentence, keeping an electronic copy of the sentence provides flexibility,e.g. cut and paste - with appropriate attribution.etc
Furthermore, by copying down the sentence I can think more deeply about its meaning rather than just marking the sentence with a line in the margin or brief underlining.
Surely shouting at a football match is an example of annotation - or are we just shouting at ourselves. ‘Every time ref, every time’ - or are we just talking to the referee whom one has never met before.
Page 86, 'They (the readers) do, however, expect to keep the book on their shelves in its ‘corrected’ condition, so their own copy would be, to their eyes at least, the better for their work with it. It has been customized for them - a dictionary with more words, a catalogue with extra entries, a polemical tract with a sounder position’.
I must apply what I have learnt to my copy of Gronow’s Reminiscences. The author of annotations ion that book certainly falls into the I know better category. His annotations displays personality but what was his intended audience for his annotations when he wrote them and for the future
Finally I must in future add annotations a la Thrale, e.g.
'Admirably said', 'Wisely discovered', 'Oh so it is'
Excellent. ( )