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Format:

Book

Author:

Jackson, Kevin, 1955-2021 author.

Title:

Invisible forms : a guide to literary curiosities / Kevin Jackson.

Edition:

First U.S. Edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2000.

Description:

xxii, 310 pages ; 21 cm

Summary:

Dedications, titles, epigraphs, footnotes, prefaces, afterwords, indexes, these and other "invisible" literary necessities form the skeletons of many a book; yet, these unacknowledged and unexamined forms abound in wisdom, curiosities, or eccentircities. ...Jackson draws on examples from every part of literature's history, ranging from the greats such as Shakespeare, Beckett, and T.S. Eliot to lesser known writers such as Fernando Pessoa. ..."Invisible Forms" will appeal to anyone who is interested in books and the art of writing. -- Jacket flap

Subjects:

Literary curiosa.

Literature -- Miscellanea.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Other Title:

Guide to literary curiosities

Notes:

Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 1999?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.

Contents:

Introduction, or preface -- Titles -- Pseudonums, aka, Noms de plume -- Heteronyms -- Blurbs, authorial and otherwise -- Dedications -- Epigraphs -- Prefaces, introductions, forewords, and acknowledgements -- First lines -- Footnotes -- Marginalia -- Stage directions -- Lectures : a lecture -- Follies -- Imaginary books, imaginary authors -- I.D. : homage to Isaac D'Israeli -- Last words, famous and otherwise -- Appendix -- Bibliography & selected bibliography -- Afterword -- Indexes -- Index nominum.

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Publisher description

LCCN:

2002265601

ISBN:

9780312266066

0312266065

Other Number:

45427118

System Availability:

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Current Holds:

0

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Control Number:

90314

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Call Number:

808.02 Jackson