Title: Annotation and its texts /
Authors: Barney, Stephen A.; University of California (System).
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Transmission of texts Congresses; Manuscripts Editing Congresses.; Criticism, Textual Congresses; Annotating, Book Congresses.; Marginalia Congresses.
Abstract: A spirited study of a neglected topic, these essays explore the character and uses of annotation from Biblical times to the present. A group of distinguished scholars investigates such subjects as the bullying footnote, the play of note against text, the self-annotation of the Bible, the parasitical commentator, the note as imperial seal, the agonies of modern scholarly publication, the hidden marginalium, and the ways in which supplements to the text tend to push aside the text. Casting light on a matter which readers usually ignore, this witty, readable, and revisionist book offers a provocative invitation for further discussion.
Contents: Justifying narrative : commentary within biblical storytelling / James C. Nohrnberg -- On the sociology of medieval manuscript annotation / Stephen G. Nichols -- Dry-point annotations in early English manuscripts : understanding texts and establishing contexts / Thomas E. Toon -- Medieval annotation : the example of the commentaries on Walter Map's Dissuasio Valerii / Traugott Lawler -- Discitur ut agatur : how Gabriel Harvey read his Livy / Anthony Grafton -- Undermining the text : Edward Gibbon, Alexander Pope, and the anti-authenticating footnote / Peter W. Cosgrove -- Who was Benjamin Whichcote? : or, The myth of annotation / Thomas McFarland -- Annotation as social practice / Ralph Hanna III -- For a political economy of annotation / Laurent Mayali -- This is not an oral footnote / Jacques Derrida.