Abridgement

Abstract: Prologue. Introduction. Chapter 1 - Intertextuality. Kristeva's Term in Context. Kristeva's Intertextuality and Semeiotike. Barthes. Riffaterre. Interdiscursivity. Interdisciplinarity. Internet and Hypertext. Chapter 2 - Influence. Influence v Intertextuality. Bloom's 'Anxiety of Influence' in Context. Harold Bloom. 'Traditional' Influence. Chapter 3 - Imitation. Imitation in Context: Mimesis or Anti-mimesis?. Richard Dawkins: Genetics and 'Memetics'. Gerard Genette: Rhetoric and the Mimologic. Rene Girard: Sandal and Excommunication. Countering the Canon: Imitatio v Plagiarism, Forgery, Counterfeit. Chapter 4 - Quotation. Quotation in context: Dictionary or Postmodern Definitions?. Quotation's Crystallizations: Illustrations in Few Other Words. AllusionQuotation's Aptness: Adeptness in Other Words. Abridgement as Allegory and Parable. Bridging as Cycle and Cyclification. Span and Interpretation. Quotation as Extraction: Re-circulations and Exchanges in so Many Other Words. Prophecy. Translation. Coda: the Return of Reference and the Work of Paul Ricoeur. Conclusions. Notes. Refernces and Bibliography. Index. Dictionary of Alternative Terms.

Abstract: IN connexion with Dr. Wightman's article in Nature of Oct. 7, p. 23, on the relationship between the Royal Society and the Philosophical Transactions in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and his emphasis on the unofficial character of the Transactions, it may be interesting to note that the abridgement of these up to the year 1700, prepared by John Lowthorp, appears to have been officially sponsored by the Society. The fly-leaf of the third edition, printed in 1722 after the publication in the preceding year of a further abridgement of the Transactions for the years 1701–20 by Benjamin Motte, carried the following advertisement : “May 5, 1703. At a meeting of the Royal Society, Sir John Hoskyns, V.P. in the chair, Mr. Lowthrop Presented a Proposal for printing an Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions. This Design was Approved by the Society and He was Desir'd to proceed therein.”

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