The Marks in the Fields - Essays on the uses of Manuscripts (Paperback)

Rodney Dennis, the Curator of Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library for many years, has solicited 37 brief essays from a group of international scholars to illustrate the evidentiary usefulness of manuscripts as well as their complexities. Early and recent manuscripts from the collections of the Houghton Library illuminate the subject according to a four-fold arrangement: the establishment of text, the creation of text, the history of the manuscript, and the physical nature of the manuscript in relation to its contents.;Richard Tarrant writes about textual principles revealed in three manuscripts of Aristotle's ethical writings. Helen Vendler discusses variants in the manuscript of Keat's "Ode to Autumn" and a Spanish comic strip found in the papers of John Ashbery. Francois Avril calls attention to the signature of Charles V in an illuminated manuscript of the 14th century, washed off in modern times by a thief. Christopher Ricks meditates upon marks and accents written by Elizabeth Bishop over her own poems to help her to read them in public. Among others, David Hughes (on "unheightened" neumes), Bernard Boschenstein (on Trakl), Barbara Johnson (On Mallarme), and Gerald Browne (on a faded pottery shard) help to reveal a variety in the forms of written communication.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Library,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	March 2005
Authors:	Rodney G. Dennis
Dimensions:	285 x 213 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-914630-07-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-914630-07-5
Barcode:	9780914630074

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