Michael Groden — Texts and Notes

English 872A — Fall 2007

Course Home Page and Schedule

SOME TEXTS WITH AND ABOUT NOTES, GLOSSES, MARGINALIA, ETC.

Criticism and Scholarship (to Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction)

Bader, Jenny Lyn. "Forget Footnotes. Hyperlink." New York Times (July 16, 2000), Sect. 4, pp. 1, 16
Barney, Stephen, ed. Annotation and Its Texts. 1991. Includes course essays by Jacques Derrida, "This is Not an Oral Footnote"; Ralph Hanna III, "Annotation as Social Practice"; and Stephen G. Nichols, "On the Sociology of Medieval Manuscript Annotation"
Battestin, Martin C. "A Rationale of Literary Annotation: The Example of Fielding's Novels." Studies in Bibliography 34 (1981): 1-22. Online
Beehler, Rodger. "In Editing a Good Novel, the Best Footnote Is 0." Chronicle of Higher Education (March 9, 2001): B14-B15
Belloc, Hilaire. "On Foot-notes." On. 1923. 30-37
Benstock, Shari. "At the Margin of Discourse: Footnotes in the Fictional Text." PMLA 98 (1983): 204-25
Bornstein, George, and Theresa Tinkle, ed. The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture. 1998. Includes course essay by Evelyn B. Tribble, "The Peopled Page: Polemic, Confutation, and Foxe's Book of Martyrs"
Bowersock, G.W. "The Art of the Footnote." American Scholar 53 (1983-84): 54-62
Burkle-Young, Francis A., and Saundra Rose Maley. The Art of the Footnote. 1996
Derrida, Jacques. "Living On: Border Lines." Deconstruction and Criticism. Harold Bloom et al. 1979. 75-116
Douglas, Lawrence, and Alexander George. "A Footnote to the History of the Footnote." Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature. 2004. 125-28
Genette, Gérard. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Trans. Jane E. Lewin. 1997. Orig. Seuils. 1987.
Grafton, Anthony. The Footnote: A Curious History. 1997
Greetham. D.C., ed. The Margins of the Text. 1997
Groden, Michael. "The Case of the Snuffed Footnote: A Report From the Stacks." Literary Imagination 6:2 (2004): 151-59
______. “James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia: Problems of Annotation.” 2002. Online. Also "Problems of Annotation in a Digital Ulysses." JoyceMedia: James Joyce, Hypermedia and Textual Genetics. Ed. Louis Armand. 2004. 116-32
Hilbert, Betsy. "Elegy for Excursus: The Descent of the Footnote." College English 51 (1989): 400-04
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?" On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. 1994. 122-30
Jackson, H.J. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books. 2001
Jackson, Kevin. Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities. 1999. Chapters on "Footnotes" & "Marginalia"
Lipking, Lawrence. "The Marginal Gloss." Critical Inquiry 3 (1977): 609-55
McClanahan, Rebecca. "Book Marks." Southern Review 36 (2000): 671-85
Palmeri, Frank. "The Satiric Footnotes of Swift and Gibbon." 1990. Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift. Ed. Frank Palmeri. 1993. 187-203
Parkes, M.B. "The Influence of the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the Development of the Book." Medieval Learning and Literature. Ed. J.J.G. Alexander and M.T. Gibson. 1976. 115-41
______. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. 1993
Sullivan, Frank. "A Garland of Ibids." A Subtreasury of American Humor. Ed. E.B. White and Katharine S. White. 1941. 263-66
Tribble, Evelyn B. Margins and Marginalia: The Printed Page in Early Modern England. 1993
Updike, John. "Notes." New Yorker (January 26, 1957): 28-29
White, Patricia S. "Black and White and Read All Over: A Meditation on Footnotes." Text  5 (1991): 81-90
Zerby, Chuck. The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes. 2002