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'''Marginalia''' is the act of writing in margins. | '''Marginalia''' is the act of writing in margins. | ||
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''We underline (particularly if we are students or harried book-reviewers). Sometimes we scribble a note in the margin. But how few of us write marginalia in Erasmus's or Coleridge's sense, how few of us annotate with copious rigor.'' | ''We underline (particularly if we are students or harried book-reviewers). Sometimes we scribble a note in the margin. But how few of us write marginalia in Erasmus's or Coleridge's sense, how few of us annotate with copious rigor.'' | ||
- ''George Steiner, The Uncommon Reader'' | - ''George Steiner, The Uncommon Reader'' | ||
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[[image: Chardin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Le Souffleur by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, 1734]] | [[image: Chardin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Le Souffleur by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, 1734]] | ||
Revision as of 11:10, 2 December 2008
Marginalia is the act of writing in margins.
We underline (particularly if we are students or harried book-reviewers). Sometimes we scribble a note in the margin. But how few of us write marginalia in Erasmus's or Coleridge's sense, how few of us annotate with copious rigor.
- George Steiner, The Uncommon Reader
Contents
A Definition
The Early Literate Elite
Forms of Marginalia
Emendation
Scholia
Reader's Signs
Annotation
Footnotes & Citation
Paper Production
Benjamin? Palimpsest Scarcity techniques
Mediatic Etymological Approach
What Is It About Books?
Marginalia as an Archaeology of Ideas
documenting ideas through changing technologies