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Document Details : Title: Marginalien und andere Sprachspiele in Thomas Morus' Utopia Author(s): KRÖNER, Niels Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 73 Date: 2024 Pages: 211-259 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.73.0.3294198 Abstract : The printed comments in the margins of Utopia have rarely been studied. By partly being overly pedantic, they present a humorous illustration of humanistic annotation practices. Yet they are far more interesting, providing the interpretation of the main text by an implicit first reader, pointing in various, contradictory directions (Is Utopia to be found at the end of the earth or in antiquity? Or fiction altogether?). Alerting the reader to intra- and intertextual links, the marginalia create a surplus of meaning, for instance when an episode in England is revealed to be a recreation of a Horatian satire. Similarly, Greek marginalia on a Latin text open up a completely different layer of meaning for a humanist competent in Greek versus a reader speaking only Latin. |
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