H.J. Jackson
Auteur de Marginalia
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Crédit image: University of Toronto
Œuvres de H.J. Jackson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) (1997) — Directeur de publication — 75 exemplaires
Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame (2015) 17 exemplaires
'Lest we lose a thought' in TLS 5378, 28 April 2006 [review of Samuel Johnson's 'Lives of the Most Eminent English… 1 exemplaire
The Major Works 1 exemplaire
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- Jackson, H.J.
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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.… (plus d'informations)