ENG287H1 Lecture Notes - Blank Verse, Onomatopoeia, Marshall Mcluhan
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Rescuing texts that weren"t happy as printed books. The first edition of the wasteland was in a magazine and appeared without footnotes: the footnotes were the gimmick that made people write the printed version instead of the magazine publication. Nabokov"s pale fire: good poem but so much time is spend flipping between the poem and the notes that it"s difficult to read. "the parasitic nature" of the notes is that they make it harder to read the text. There is also the danger that you"ll have notes by the editor about notes by the author. The notes are trying to be helpful but are really saying "this is too difficult for you" With the electronic edition it"s easier to hide the notes: changing the orientation changes our perception changes how we"re going to interpret the text and the notes appear. Mcluhan - reading vs. listening to poetry: reading is more analytical than listening.
