Why do we quote? : the culture and history of quotation /
"This fascinating book examines the ways in which we quote today and the curious history of how quoting became part of our everyday lives. Quoting provides a link to our loved ones ("as my mother used to say ... "), to our religious and literary heritage, to past wisdom and to current...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE
- 1. Prelude: A Dip in Quoting's Ocean
- 2. Tastes of the Present: The Here and Now of Quoting
- 'Here and now'?
- What are people quoting today?
- Gathering and storing quotations
- 3. Putting Others' Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today's Quoting
- Signalling quotation
- When to quote and how
- To quote or not to quote
- So why quote?
- II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW
- 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future
- What are quote marks and where did they come from?
- What do they mean?
- Do we need them?
- 5. Harvesting Others' Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections
- A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- 6. Quotation in Sight and Sound
- Quoting and writing
- inseparable twins?
- The wealth of oral quotation
- Quoting blossoms in performance
- Music, script and image
- 7. Arts and Rites of Quoting
- Frames for others' words and voices
- Narrative and its plural voices
- Poetry
- Exposition and rhetoric
- Ritual and sacred texts
- Play
- Displayed text
- An array of quoting arts
- How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them?
- 8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others' Words and Voices
- Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship, and plagiarism
- Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed?
- The fields where quoting grows
- III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE
- 9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It?
- So what is it?
- The far and near of quoting
- Why quote?
- Appendices
- Quoting the Academics Background to this study: citing the authorities Academics quoting
- - List of the Mass Observation Writers.