| Contents |
I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE -- 1. Prelude: A Dip in Quoting's Ocean -- 2. Tastes of the Present: The Here and Now of Quoting -- 'Here and now'? -- What are people quoting today? -- Gathering and storing quotations -- 3. Putting Others' Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today's Quoting -- Signalling quotation -- When to quote and how -- To quote or not to quote -- So why quote? -- II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW -- 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future -- What are quote marks and where did they come from? -- What do they mean? -- Do we need them? -- 5. Harvesting Others' Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections -- A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations -- 6. Quotation in Sight and Sound -- Quoting and writing -- inseparable twins? -- The wealth of oral quotation -- Quoting blossoms in performance -- Music, script and image -- 7. Arts and Rites of Quoting -- Frames for others' words and voices -- Narrative and its plural voices -- Poetry -- Exposition and rhetoric -- Ritual and sacred texts -- Play -- Displayed text -- An array of quoting arts -- How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them? -- 8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others' Words and Voices -- Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship, and plagiarism -- Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed? -- The fields where quoting grows -- III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE -- 9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It? -- So what is it? -- The far and near of quoting -- Why quote? -- Appendices -- Quoting the Academics Background to this study: citing the authorities Academics quoting --- List of the Mass Observation Writers. |
| Abstract |
"This fascinating book examines the ways in which we quote today and the curious history of how quoting became part of our everyday lives. Quoting provides a link to our loved ones ("as my mother used to say ... "), to our religious and literary heritage, to past wisdom and to current attitudes. It can also be irritating, patronising, pedantic and, in some cases, illegal. Ruth Finnegan's meticulous study sheds new light on how quoting has been used in visual, oral and written traditions around the world. It is an enjoyable and engrossing read for anyone interested in language, culture and literature, and makes us rethink our ideas about originality, authorship and plagiarism"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode |
| Language | English. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-04-27). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Finnegan, Ruth. Why Do We Quote? : The Culture and History of Quotation. Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©1900 9781906924348 |
| Issued in other form | 9781906924331 (pbk.) |
| Issued in other form | 9781906924348 (hbk.) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019452798 |
| ISBN | 9781906924355 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9782821817128 |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt5n075d JSTOR |
