Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and

by Robert Hauptman

Book Overview

This work examines and critiques the history, use, and abuse of various literary systems of documentation. Throughout history, such systems have been employed in different ways and through various applications in order to attribute, comment, translate, reference, or otherwise remark tangentially on a primary text. The work studies all forms of documentation used in the Western world--from ancient Biblical commentaries, to the medieval gloss, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786433337
• ISBN13: 9780786433339
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher