Table des matières

I. Setting the present scene

• 2.1. ’Here and now’?
• 2.2. What are people quoting today?
• 2.3. Gathering and storing quotations

• 3.1. Signalling quotation
• 3.2. When to quote and how
• 3.3. To quote or not to quote
• 3.4. So why quote?

II. Beyond the here and now

• 4.1. What are quote marks and where did they come from?
• 4.2. What do they mean?
• 4.3. Do we need them?

• 5.1. A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• 5.2. Forerunners in the written Western tradition
• 5.3. Where did they come from?
• 5.4. Why collect quotations?

• 6.1. Quoting and writing – inseparable twins?
• 6.2. The wealth of oral quotation
• 6.3. Quoting blossoms in performance
• 6.4. Music, script and image

• 7.1. Frames for others’ words and voices
• 7.1.1 Narrative and its plural voices
• 7.1.2 Poetry
• 7.1.3 Exposition and rhetoric
• 7.1.4 Ritual and sacred texts
• 7.1.5 Play
• 7.1.6 Displayed text
• 7.2. An array of quoting arts
• 7.3. How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them?

• 8.1. Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship and plagiarism
• 8.2. Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed?
• 8.3. The fields where quoting grows

III. Distance and presence

• 9.1. So what is it?
• 9.2. The far and near of quoting
• 9.3. Why quote?

• Background to this study: citing the authorities
• Academics quoting