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Sam Hose's Knuckles: Lynching Poems

Chuck Zerby

The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes

Chuck Zerby

But by the time we arrive at page 316, we may forget that, like a reporter who travels for a season with the same baseball team, say the Red Sox, Edmund Lodge, Esq., may cease to be a recorder of the team's hits and pitches and become a ...

On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World

Alexander Humez

... we know footnotes like anything else on the Web can go poof! and disappear,” writes Chuck Zerby at the conclusion of The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes. not supposed to read the footnotes: Anthony Grafton, The Footnote *A Curious ...

The History of U.S. Higher Education – Methods for ...

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Chuck Zerby. The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes (NY: Touchstone, 2003), 7. 5. G. W. Bowersock. “The Art of the Footnote,” The American Scholar 53, no.1 ( 1983–Winter 1983): 54–62, 54–55. 6. Nancy E. Shields with Mary E. Uhle.

Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the ...

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In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Internet and hypertext. In a story that boasts a marvelous plot and a rogues' gallery of ...

Symbolism 15: [Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes]

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In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby questions whether or not hyperlinks might rightly be called footnotes. “The footnote either becomes so new an entity on the Web that it ceases to be a footnote or stays so much the same old footnote that it is ...

Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of ...

Alex Watson

... newly emergent commercial market for printed books. This academic interest in annotation even crosses over into works of popular scholarship, such as Chuck Zerby's The Devil's Details (2002), Kevin Jackson's Invisible Forms (1999), and ...

Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials

Adam Garfinkle

5. Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997). 6. Chuck Zerby, Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes ( New York: Touchstone, 2003). 7. Alexandra Horowitz, “Will the E-Book Kill the ...

The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson

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13 Chuck Zerby, in his study of the footnote, suggests that early "Bibles were battlefields; their left and right margins were the trenches from which scriptural annotations and citations were lobbed at previous Bibles' misinterpretations."14 What ...

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, ...

Keith Houston

... Chuck Zerby's 2003 book The Devil's Details: a History of Footnotes, for example, is partly an enthusiastic call for the revival of the form and partly an account of its history, should the patient in fact be beyond help.60 The doomsaying that ...