Listening to the Dead: Marginalia in Walker Percy's Private Library Public Deposited
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- February 28, 2019
- Creator
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Nicholson, Joseph
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- A record of one researcher's wanderings through Walker Percy's private library in the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this study provides an account of the character and extent of Percy's collection as well as a survey of selected examples of marginalia that his books contain. Opting for an impressionistic approach that relies on selective browsing in those portions of the library that Percy seems to have read with particular attentiveness, it does not aspire to offer an exhaustive catalog of the library's contents or perform a meticulous literary analysis that establishes sure connections between the books Percy read and those he wrote. Rather, the essay attempts to describe the broad contours of Percy's collection and capture the flavor and basic characteristics of his annotations in a relatively small sample. It also discusses some of the vexing perplexities involved in working with the library of a deceased writer and the ambiguous rewards of studying marginalia, a fragmentary, incomplete genre of writing that often withholds as much as it discloses.
- Date of publication
- April 2006
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- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Carr, David W.
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Language
- Extent
- 75 p.
- Access
- Open access
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