The Poetics and Genre of Marginalia in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notebooks and Workbooks Cover Image

Поэтика и жанр маргиналий в записных книжках и рабочих тетрадях Достоевского
The Poetics and Genre of Marginalia in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notebooks and Workbooks

Author(s): Vladimir Nikolaevich Zakharov
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: genre; poetics; marginalia; marginal notes; text structure; methatext; notebooks; exercise books; calligraphy; proofreading marks;

Summary/Abstract: The marginalia of readers are an indispensable attribute of book culture. They reflect a critical attitude to the main text, not only to someone else’s, but often to their own. Analysis of marginalia is important for the study of the biography of historical figures and writers: their marginal notes, critical judgments, polemics, comments and additions reveal their identity as readers. Marginalia in a personal handwritten text have a special status. The main part of Dostoevsky’s creative process is a sheet, a page, sometimes a center spread.

  • Issue Year: 16/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 85-100
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian
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