| Description |
1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Rhetoric of the Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Conventions -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Arts of Ostentation -- Approaching the Blank -- Naming the Blank -- The Blank on Stage -- Rhetoric -- Varieties of Blank -- Literary Blanks -- 'This Page Intentionally Left Blank' -- or, the Apophatic Page -- Introduction -- Part I: Filling In -- The Interactive Reader -- Medieval Scribes -- Errata Lists -- Supplementation and Omission -- Literary Adoption/Adaptation -- Personalization -- Names and Initials -- Censorship -- Paper |
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Part II: Leaving Out -- Imperfect and Unfinished: Desunt Nonnulla -- Gaps across Media -- Authorial Uses of Gaps -- The Comic Pay-Off -- The Blank Page Writes Back -- Blanks in Dramatic Manuscripts -- Orlando Furioso -- John of Bordeaux -- Sir Thomas More -- The Fascination of the Blank -- Part III: Editing -- Editing the Blank -- Bernard André, The Life of Henry VII -- Editing Medieval Drama and Poetry -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 126 -- Digitizing the Blank -- The Editorial Gloss -- Editing George Peele, The Tale of Troy -- Conclusion -- Et Cetera/Etcetera/&c -- or, the Aposiopetic Page |
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Introduction -- Part I: Interpretations -- Bawdy and the Body -- Substitutes -- Apron-Strings -- Women's &-caeteras -- Rape -- Interruption and Breaking Off -- The Dash -- Aposiopesis -- Letters and Formulae -- Aposiopesis (Continued) -- Continuation -- Stage Directions -- Characters -- Props -- Sound -- Action -- Costume -- Song -- Improvisation -- Part II: Complexities -- Complications -- 'And so forth' -- George Gascoigne -- Edward Coke, Institutes -- John Ford, Love's Sacrifice -- Cue Words -- Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour -- Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness |
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Part III: Extensions -- Extending Meaning -- Exaggeration and Ambiguity -- Sound: Bathos, Rhyme, Music -- Location, Location, Location -- Form -- Continental &c-etceteras -- Conclusion -- The Asterisk -- or, the Gnomic Page -- Introduction -- Part I: Representation -- Representation I: Absence -- Ben Jonson -- Montaigne -- The Eighteenth Century: Swift, Pope, Sterne -- Swearing -- Sterne (Continued) -- Representation II: Presence -- Flowers -- Stars -- Readers' Stars -- Part II: The Margin -- Occupying the Margin -- or, a Star is Born -- Dialogue -- How to Read an Elizabethan Book |
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The Synaptic Asterisk -- Reading Othello -- Part III: Mediation -- Mediating Knowledge and Ignorance -- Mediating Play and Book -- John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen -- John Marston, The Malcontent -- Tradition and Innovation -- Jerome Rothenberg, Technicians of the Sacred -- Epilogue -- Print and Metaphor -- Print and Punctuation -- The Rhetoric of the Stage Page -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium to googlebooks, this volume shows the creative and playful opportunities blank spaces on the page afforded readers and writers |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192606686 |
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0192606689 |
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