Quotation in sight and sound

Abstract

2.1. 'Here and now'? 2.2. What are people quoting today? 2.3. Gathering and storing quotations 3. Putting Others' Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today's Quoting 3.1. Signalling quotation 3.2. When to quote and how 3.3. To quote or not to quote 3.4. So why quote? II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future 4.1. What are quote marks and where did they come from? 4.2. What do they mean? 4.3. Do we need them? 5. Harvesting Others' Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections 5.1. A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 5.2. Forerunners in the written Western tradition 5.3. Where did they come from? 5.4. Why collect quotations? viii Why Do We Quote? 6. Quotation in Sight and Sound 6.1. Quoting and writing -inseparable twins? 6.2 The wealth of oral quotation 6.3 Quoting blossoms in performance 6.4 Music, script and image 7. Arts and Rites of Quoting 7.1 Frames for others' words and voices 7.1.1 Narrative and its plural voices 7.1.2. Poetry 7.1.3 Exposition and rhetoric 7.1.4 Ritual and sacred texts 7.1.5 Play 7.1.6 Displayed text 7.2. An array of quoting arts 7.3. How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them? 8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others' Words and Voices 8.1.Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship, and plagiarism 8.2. Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed? 8.3. The fields where quoting grows III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE 9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It? 9.1. So what is it? 9.2. The far and near of quoting 9.3. Why quote? Appendix 1. Quoting the Academics Background to this study: citing the authorities Academics quoting Appendix 2. List of the Mass Observation Writers References Index List of Illustrations Page 1.1 'If it weren't for the last minute…' 1.2 'Dad turns out all right' 1.3 War memorial, Church Green Road, Bletchley, November 2009 1.4 Graveyard quoting 2.1 Example of extract from a mass observer's comment 2.2 An 85 year-old widow's quoting 2.3 Sayings in 'our circle of friends' 2.4 A large collection of quotation books 3.1 'I was suddenly conscious of the quote marks'