Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 450 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783657795284
Series Statement:
Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur Band 42
Content:
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciad s and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, they multiply meanings and pit different voices against each other. Self-annotations serve to ambiguate the author’s self-presentation as well as the genre, tone, and overall interpretation of a text. The study also examines how notes were employed for ‘social networking’ and how authors used self-annotations to address, and differentiate between, various groups of readerships. Additionally, the volume sheds light on the wider literary and cultural context of self-annotations: How common were they during the long eighteenth century? What conventions governed them? And were they even read? The study hence combines literary analysis with insights into book history and the history of reading
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 405-446
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Dissertation Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 2021
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783506795281
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lahrsow, Miriam The author as annotator Paderborn : Brill, Schöningh, 2022 ISBN 9783506795281
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3506795287
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 The dunciad
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Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824
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Fußnote
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.30965/9783657795284
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