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Glossary
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Glossary: A brief and highly selective list of words and abbreviation
that you are likely to come across when doing research in literature.
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1 Allegory: Figurative description or narrative with hidden meaning
> Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
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* Aslib: The Association for Information Management
» The Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux
» A forum for discussion and exchange of information
* Augustan: Term applied to late seventeenth and early eighteenth-
century English literature
» This period the epoch of Virgil, Horace and Ovid showed a concern for
decorum, urbanity and “correctness”.
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B
* Bibliographical ghost: Book that has never really existed
» the result of an error in transcription, in editing or in printing during the
production of a catalogue or bibliography
Should not be confused with
> A book that was cancelled in the press and was therefore never published
» A book that was published but of which no copies now exist
* Bibliography (analytical): technical investigation of the printing of
specific books or general printing practice, based exclusively on the
physical evidence of the books themselves
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* Bibliography (descriptive): use of techniques of analytical
bibliography to describe the format and printing history of specific book
or books.
* Bibliography (enumerative): the recording and enumeration of all
known editions printed during a defined period or in a specific region or
country
¥ the entries are usually listed alphabetically by author
¥ title and frequently contain information on the location of copies.
* Bibliography (historical): the study of the book as a product of
material resources and technical processes
Y as the materials change and processes evolve, so do the nature and form
of the book.
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* Bibliography (textual): application of analytical bibliography to the
editing of texts, particularly where a question of meaning is involved.
* BLAISE: British Library Automated Information Service
* Blank verse: unrhymed verse, in iambic pentameters
Y peculiar to English verse
¥ first used by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Books 2 and 4 of Virgil’s
Aeneid
+ BUCOP: British Union Catalogue of Periodicals.
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C. : abbreviation of the Latin circa (‘around [date]’).
Caesura: a heavy pause in, or near, the middle of a verse line.
Canon:
on the analogy of the biblical: the books of the Bible regarded as Scripture
the term ‘the literary canon’: those works of literature regarded as possessing
especial authority or literarymerit.
Catchword: first word of the next page printed at the foot of the preceding \
page
catchwords were a common feature of books until the nineteenth century, and 1
were used by printers as a means of telling which page followed which during
imposition.
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* Catharsis: term applied by Aristotle in his Poetics to the
+ function of tragedy in purifying the emotions of pity and terror by
vicarious experience of them in the theatre.
* cd-rom: compact disc with read-only memory
* Collate: to compare (usually) a copy-text with other available versions
of a text in order to detect variants in the text
* this is usually done to establish the best or most likely reading of a given
word or line, and to plot the bibliographic history of a text
* This process is now made somewhat easier by such machines as the
Hinman Collating Machine, which optically superimposes two texts so
that they can be compared
* copy-text:copy of a manuscript or printed version of a text that is
chosen by an editor as the basis for a critical edition.
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* Deconstruction: A ‘deconstructive’ reading of a text tries to bring out the
logic of the text’s language as opposed to the logic of the author's claims or
intentions, and it is governed by the theory
¥ that concepts tend to involve their opposites
¥ that language is a labyrinth from which there is no escape, there being no ‘real
world’ that serves as its boundary or external point of reference.
* Diachronic: occurring in succession, as opposed to synchronic. i
* dialogic structure:
¥ ‘dialogic’ has been given currency by the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin
¥ language is always social in that by its nature it presupposes dialogue with
others.
Y He sees the novel as the most dialogical of literary forms in its capacity to
subvert the single (monological) voice of the author.
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Duodecimo:
book format produced when the original sheet has been folded so as to produce,
twelve leaves (24 pages).
Because the sheet has been folded a number of times, this format tends to be ver
small
commonly abbreviated to 12mo.
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Edition: ‘all the copies of a book printed at any time (or times) from substanti
the same setting of type,
includes all
the various impressions
Issues
states which may have been derived from that setting
edition (critical): authoritative edition of a given work, whose aim is to presen
a text as close as possible to the author's original or ultimate intentions \
the edition is based on a copy-text
lists textual variants and is often extensively annotated.
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edition (variorum):
an edition that lists all the variants in the author’s manuscript and in edition!
other than the copy-text;
an edition that includes some of the annotations and commentaries of previous!
editors.
Some variorum editions do both, for example The New Variorum Shakespeare
Elegy: although originally a much broader term, since the sixteenth century
this has come to mean a poem lamenting the death of (usually) a specific
person. \
Enjambement: when the end of a line of verse does not correspond to any
natural speech-pause, there is said to be enjambement
A line of which this is true is called a run-on line £
for example: ‘Instead of sweets, his ample palate took/Savour of poisonous
brass and metal sick’
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۰ Epic: long narrative poem written in an elevated style about a great or
heroic subject
+ the term is also sometimes applied to large-scale novels that tackle many
subjects and deal with a multitude of characters
¥ (for example, Tolstoy’s War and Peace).
۰ Exegesis: originally a commentary on a particular biblical text; now used
to mean a rigorous analysis and explication of any text.
* external evidence: any evidence—not derived from the text itself—for \
the authorship, intended meaning, circumstances of production, or date, of a
particular work it includes
¥ biographical information
Y as well as evidence from analytical and other bibliographical studies
¥ from publishing history
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* fl.: used of a writer whose birth and/or death dates are not known, but who
was alive and active around the time specified.
Folio: large book format produced when the printed sheet is folded only once
Format: size and shape of a book.
Standard formats are
folio
Quarto
Octavo
Duodecimo
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+ these are relative sizes, as the exact dimensions of a book depend on the size
of the original sheets on which it is printed.
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Gathering: ‘pamphlet-like’ section of a book produced when the printer
folds and cuts the original printed sheet.
A gathering is usually of two, four, eight, twelve or sixteen leaves,
depending on the number of folds made,the number of folds determines the
format of the book.
A number of gatherings are sewn together to make the final book
Gothic: in its literal sense, pertaining to the Goths who invaded the Roman
Empire.
Retrospectively, it was used to describe a set of building styles prevalent in
Europe between the late twelfth and early sixteenth centuries.
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+ Hermeneutics: originally the study of biblical interpretation, but now
used more generally to mean the study of the nature and theory of
interpretation.
۷ From the Greek hermeneus
+ heroic couplets: rhymed iambic pentameters, a form much used by
Dryden and Pope.
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+ ibid.: used when making a second or subsequent reference to the same
work where there is no intervening reference to another work.
* Idyll: lyrical poem usually depicting an idealized version of rural or
pastoral life
8 Imposition: creation of a composed area of type large enough to print
a whole sheet of paper at one time.
۲۷ This was done by taking the required number of pages of movable type \
and locking them firmly, in the correct order for printing, in a rectangular
iron frame by means of wooden blocks and wedges.
7” The result of this process was a ‘forme’.
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۴ Impression: all those copies of an edition printed at one time.
* internal evidence: any evidence for the authorship, intended
meaning, circumstances of production, or date, of a particular work derived
from the text itself
Y for example, stylistic features and references to events contemporary with
the writing
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L
Leaf: single piece of paper, being two pages back to back.
Letterpress: has two meanings:
the text of a book (including any line illustrations) but not its plates (if
any)
printing from raised type or blocks (as opposed to printing from
lithographic
plates).
Logocentrism: term used by Jacques Derrida to refer to the priority
given to the spoken
word in Western philosophy—with the further implication that a text will
be governed by a centre which is not itself part of the text's structure.
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Metaphor: naming or describing something in terms of something
else
as for instance speaking of the ‘neck’ of a bottle or of ‘swallowing’ an
insult.
In a broad sense it includes:
Metonymy
synecdoche
simile.
Metonymy: rhetorical figure by which the name of an attribute is
substituted for the thing itself
as for instance the use of the word ‘throne’ to signify monarchy.
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* Metre: the commonest metres in English are
¥ the iambic
۷۶ ۱۵
¥ the anapaestic
¥ the dactylic
۷ metres composed of the type of feet known respectively as iambs, trochees,
anapaests and dactyls.
٠ lamb: foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
syllable
Y for example, ‘pretend’
٠ Trochee: foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed
Y for example, ‘gaily’
* Anapaest: foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed
۷ for example, ‘disinclined’ 1
* Dactyl: foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
syllables
for example, ‘gloomily’
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the metres of English verse have been given names taken from
Greek and Latin prosody.
Greek and Latin verse works on a different principle from English
verse:
Greek and Latin verse is ‘quantitative’, i.e. a matter of the alternation of
‘long’ and ‘short’ syllables
English metre is a matter of the alternation of stressed and unstressed
syllables.
In practice, a metrical label gives only a very rough description of
the rhythmical effect of a particular poem
Microform: generic terms meaning manuscripts and books that have
been photographically reproduced on a very small scale—for reading on
special machines.
The two most common forms are:
Microfiche
microfilm
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microfiche: sheet of film (normally about 13x8 cm) that allows ‘random
access’
microfilm: usually a roll of 35mm film with one or two pages reproduced
per frame.
N
Narratology: theoretical study of the various forms of narrative.
n.d.: no known date (or ‘not dated’).
Any date in brackets that follows this can be assumed to be the product
of an educated guess.
If the date is known but not printed in the book, then it should appear in
square brackets thus: [1970].
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* 1.P.: no known place of publication.
Y Any place in brackets that follows this can be assumed to be the
product of an educated guess.
0
۰ 062۷0: ۵۵ produced when the original sheet is folded
three times to produce a gathering of eight leaves
* Ode: ong lyric poem, dignified in style and serious in subject-matter,
often a formal address to a person or personified subject
* OPAC: this system allows a user to access and search an electronic
library catalogue via the Internet and the Web.
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Page: has two meanings:
one side of a leaf
type arranged for the printing of one side of a leaf
Passim: Latin for ‘everywhere’ (or ‘throughout’). In other words,
‘references to this subject are found throughout the work’.
Pastoral: the representing of urban or civilized existence under the
disguise of an idealized rural one.
Periodical: serial normally issued at regular intervals
press-mark: numbers and/or letters indicating the location of a
given book in a library that has fixed locations
In practice, such libraries tend to have controlled access rather than
being open-access libraries
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quantitative verse: poetry written on the Greek and Latin principle
of the alternation of long and short syllables, rather than of stressed and
unstressed syllables.
As English tends to be an accentual language the writing ofEnglish
quantitative verse has proved neither very easy nor very rewarding.
Quarto: book format produced when the original sheet is folded twice to
produce a gathering of four leaves. /
Quire: ‘pamphlet’ produced when the printer folds and cuts his original
sheet.
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Recto: front of a leaf
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Semiology: science of signs. It studies signs as a form of language
and, like structuralism, is influenced by the linguistic theories of
Ferdinand de Saussure
Serial: any work issued at intervals in successive parts, sometimes
irregularly and frequently with no expected limit on the number of parts.
Sheet: large piece of paper which, when printed and folded, goes to
make up a gathering, quire or signature.
Every book is composed of a series of such gatherings sewn or stuck together.
The number of pages printed is determined by the number of times the sheet is
to be folded.
Sheets vary in size, so format names are only an approximate indication of size.
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* signature.: has two meanings:
¥ printed sheet folded and cut; there are two synonyms for this gathering
and quire
Y printer's mark that appears at the foot of the recto of the first leaf of a
gathering
¥ these marks are used by the binder to make sure that the gatherings
are assembled in the correct order.
۷ Catchwords were used for the same purpose.
٠ Simile: metaphorical comparison introduced by ‘as’, ‘like’
+ Sonnet: verse-form consisting, in English, of fourteen iambic
pentameter lines
¥ ‘Miltonic’ sonnets rhyme abbaabbacdecde, or have a very similar
arrangement
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whereas most Shakespearian sonnets rhyme ababcdcdefefgg. The first
eight lines of a sonnet are frequently called the ‘octave’, and the last
six lines the‘sestet’.
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* Structuralism: theory that human activities are structured like a languag:
¥ The movement was inspired by the theories put forward by the linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure in his Cours de linguistique générale (1916)
¥ according to which language is a system of differences
¥ its terms conveying meaning only in relation to other terms
¥ The structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss represents the culture of
primitive societies as organized around binary differences or oppositions, such
as raw versus cooked.
Synchronic: occurring simultaneously
Synecdoche: figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or a
whole for a part
for example, ‘all hands were on deck’
for example, ‘Pakistan won the test’
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U
* union catalogue: catalogue that lists the holdings of two or more
libraries
for example, The British Union Catalogue of Periodicals lists the serial “ا
holdings of around 400 British libraries.
۷
* Variant: alternative reading of a given word or passage in a text
¥ for example, in the line from Hamlet:
‘O that this too, too solid flesh would melt’
¥ the variants for ‘solid’ found in other editions include ‘sallied’ and ‘sullied’.
* Verso: back of a leaf
* Vide: Latin for ‘see’.
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Ww
٠ Web: the World Wide Web or WWW; that part of the Internet which
allows the easy transmission, not just of text but also of graphics, audio
and video.
۷ It is also characterized by the use of hypertext, which allows a user to
jump from one piece of information to a related piece by means of ‘hot’
links between words or phrases in different documents, or in different
parts of the same document.
