Dear Germaine: I don't think this shard is 'against Bibliography', or even the History of the Book, imaginatively conceived. I know, like, respect and greatly admire Jim Mays as a noble, clinical, scrupulous editor who would always extol the connexions between a seriously conceived, McKenzie-ite Historical Bibliography and Book History against the dulled edge of an anxiety-of-theory-driven, cultural-studies inspired surrogate. Ever WG
Professor Warwick Gould FRSL, FRSA, FEA
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From: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship on behalf of Germaine Warkentin
Sent: Wed 21/03/2007 19:00
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Subject: Re: History of the Book Masters Degree
"discursive guff from the dulled edge of cultural studies" -- wow, do I ever want to cite that! I have a chapter in the book I'm writing called "Against Bibliography" and this particular shard is priceless. Permission granted? Contributions from others are warmly encouraged; I have been collecting good and bad jokes about bibliography/book history for some months now. cheers, Germaine
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
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