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Marginalia examples in Fernando Pessoa's books.
Dr. Herbert Halpert was an American folklorist who came to teach at Memorial University in the early 1960’s, and founded the Folklore Department. His private library, numbering approximately 13,000 volumes, is considered by scholars to... more
John Rae (1813-1900) was a public servant, author, painter and photographer. A self-taught artist with a great capacity for whimsy, he was well respected as a practitioner and as a teacher. Rae was also a very competent and level-headed... more
Abstract: The marks left by readers in their personal copies of Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets provide traces of how manuscript engages print, and readers materially engage writers, in the Romantic period. Surveying 152 copies of... more
In his elusive and eccentric 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe presents a sensation first-person account of his fictional title-character’s experiences of cannibalism, mutiny and shipwreck as a... more
This essay affords the first extensive reading of T.S. Eliot’s marginalia to F. H. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and Reality.’ I draw attention to a shift in Eliot’s way of doing philosophy over the course of his year at Merton College, Oxford,... more
What might it mean to use books rather than read them? This work examines the relationship between book use and forms of thought and theory in the early modern period. Drawing on legal, medical, religious, scientific and literary... more
This paper looks at Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog” in connection with various types of revenge, one of the oldest and richest themes in literature. First, I distinguish the story from two classic American fictions appearing during the next... more
The Aspremont-Kievraing Psalter (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 118) was created in Artois, France circa 1290-1310 for Joffroy d’Aspremont and Isabelle de Kievraing. The Psalter is the first half of a ‘hybrid text’, consisting of both the... more
Medieval manuscript studies have been of increasing interest to the academe in recent years, and within the next year a book and an exhibition on opus anglicanum (English embroidery made between c. 1250-1350) are planned. Yet there has... more
The Recognition of the Lord (Īśvarapratyabhijñā) by the Kashmirian Utpaladeva (c. 925–975) is a landmark in the history of nondual Śaivism, and one of the masterpieces of Indian philosophy. The detailed commentary (Vivṛti) on it by the... more
[Прошу прощения за искажение шрифтов на сайте! Для их корректного воспроизведения скачайте, пожалуйста, pdf!] Статья посвящена выходным записям и маргиналиям Архангельского евангелия 1092 г. Рассматриваются три записи писца Мичка:... more
The purpose of this conference is giving a summary of the main particularities in Manuel Puig’s "El beso de la mujer araña" that influenced David Foster Wallace’s writing, focusing on how marginal notes in "El beso..." partially inspired... more
"This article explores the politics of owning, or taking ownership, of Bible historiale manuscripts during the Hundred Years’ War. As theft and capture disrupted predictable patterns of patronage and exchange, new owners’ additions,... more
A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell Companions in Art History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2019) (a collection of thirty-nine original essays from leading and upcoming scholars in the... more
Il libro riesamina le fonti classiche dei ‘Rerum vulgarium fragmenta’ a partire dalle note di lettura presenti nei volumi della biblioteca di Francesco Petrarca finora rinvenuti (in originale o in copia). Si tratta di un lavoro a cavallo... more
Il saggio è dedicato all'esame di una nota di lettura lasciata da Petrarca in margine al carme II 9 di Orazio nel codice M. 404 della Morgan Library di New York. L'annotazione gode di grande notorietà presso gli studiosi da quando nel... more
The advent of the Internet has fundamentally redefined the way we interact with texts. Digitality has made both reader and author more visible by creating a platform upon which fan writing, resituated as a form of marginalia, and digital... more
Primary Source Examination of Joseph Bates’ Studies on the Atonement From Published Writings and the marginalia from his personal Bible circa 1850-1867
A actividade pre-heteronímica de Fernando Pessoa não se limitou ao domínio da escrita, mas também à leitura da sua biblioteca por parte de alguns dos seus pre-heterónimos. Neste ensaio, interrogamo-nos precisamente sobre a génese do... more
In the fifteenth-century Book of the White Earl (the older, intercalated section of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 610), the well-known fianaighecht text Acallam na Senórach is annotated in the hand of the text’s main scribe. He... more
The present article is aimed at explaining the pragmatics of Alexander Pushkin’s marginalia on the second volume of Opyty v stikhakh i proze (1817) by Konstantin Batyushkov. Alexei Balakin’s hypothesizes that it is likely Pushkin’s... more
Catalogue of the exhibition "Marginalia in cARTography" at the Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin (US). This exhibition explores the visual discourse between marginal artistic images and the maps where they appear, as this marginalia sheds... more
Disponibile in ebook e a stampa, Il volume è composto di 245 pagine con illustrazioni. Quale auspicio beneaugurale per la collana editoriale ‘VELAMEN’ iniziamo con la trattazione di quelle acconciature femminili con copricapi o... more
Marginalität. Ränder. Der Begriff der Marginalität changiert zwischen Abstraktion und Bildhaltigkeit. Das macht ihn benutzerfreundlich - man weiss immer schon in etwa, was gemein ist. Andererseits macht es ihn ungreifbar, weil die... more
This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino’s Plotinus manuscripts and offers a novel reading of Ficino’s “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning Paul O. Kristeller’s manuscript research and Frances... more
The preface to the reader in The Chronicle of John Hardyng (1543) states that “None haue behynde theim, left so greate treasure…As thei whiche haue taken peines to write Chronicles and actes” so that “By Chronicles we knowe, in eche... more
The paper analyses the representation of tribal and minor subjects in contemporary Malayalam film. It reads two films in Malayalam released in July 2011 in order to understand the politics of representation in the medium of film. A... more
Il contributo, dedicato agli autografi di Giovanni Boccaccio, è contenuto nel primo tomo della serie ‘Origini e Trecento’ all’interno dell’opera ‘Autografi dei letterati italiani’. Il lavoro si apre con un’introduzione agli autografi di... more
The present paper discusses the question of Marsilio Ficino's lost translations of Proclus' Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology. It reviews all known evidence for Ficino's work on the Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology,... more
Ao literalmente concretizar a metáfora proposta por Roland Barthes sobre a morte do autor, a marginália do homem que matou o autor de uma das maiores obras- -primas da literatura brasileira, Os Sertões: Campanha de Canudos, cria um livro... more
in 'Medieval Art History Today: Critical Terms', ed. Nina Rowe, special issue of 'Studies in Iconography' 33 (2012): 29-44.
The article studies some of Catullus’ textual and paratextual innovations generally attributed to early printed editions (Avanzi, Palladio and Guarini), in comparison with other earlier manuscript sources (Francesco Buzzacarini and Angelo... more