The words of others : from quotations to culture / Gary Saul Morson.

• Verbal gems and treasuries -- The market for quotations -- What is an anthology? -- Quotationality and former quotations -- The nature of quotations -- What is a quotation? -- Making a quotation -- What is a misquotation? -- More than words alone -- Mis-misquotations -- How and where quotations live -- Quotations of occasion -- Famous last words -- Epitaphs -- Literary composition and decomposition -- The anthology as literature -- Whole and part.

Ämnesord

Quotation in literature.  (LCSH)

Quotations  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Epitaphs  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN171.Q6 (LCC)

080.9 (DDC)

Bb (kssb/8 (machine generated))