Chuck Zerby: The Devil's Details

Cover: 9780743241755 | The Devil's Details | A History of Footnotes | Chuck Zerby | Buch

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Beschreibung

Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Internet and hypertext.

In a story that boasts a marvelous plot and a rogues' gallery of players, Zerby examines traditional footnotes and their less-buttoned-down incarnations, as when used by pornographers. Yes, The Devil's Details is full of surprises: Zerby hunts down the first bona fide fully functioning footnote; unearths a multivolume history of Northumberland County, England, that uses one volume for a single footnote; and uncovers a murder plot. He even explains why footnotes are like blind dates.

Carefully researched and highly opinionated, The Devil's Details affirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.

Über den Autor

Chuck Zerby

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Endangered Footnote

2. The Early Years

3. A Poetic Interlude

4. The Years of Discipline

5. The Illusion of Empire

6. A Poetic Interlude II

7. Toward the Virtual Footnote

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780743241755
ISBN-10:	0743241754
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Zerby, Chuck
Hersteller:	Touchstone
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Chuck Zerby
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.03.2003
Gewicht:	0,238 kg