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Why do we quote? : the culture and history of quotation / Ruth Finnegan

By:

Finnegan, Ruth H [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781906924355

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

080.9

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Contents:

I. Setting the present scene

1. Prelude : a dip in quoting's ocean

2. Tastes of the present : the here and now of quoting

3. Putting others' words on stage : arts and ambiguities of today's quoting

II. Beyond the here and now

4. Quotation marks : present, past, and future

5. Harvesting others' words : the long tradition of quotation collections

6. Quotation in sight and sound

7. Arts and rites of quoting

8. Controlling quotation : the regulation of others' words and voices

III. Distance and presence

9. What is quotation and why do we do it?

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.