On Annotation

  • Explanatory annotation is one of the oldest hermeneutic practices but comparatively few people have thought about it systematically. What is the influence on the reading and comprehension of a text? What must annotations look like in order to be really helpful? How can we distinguish between explanatory annotations and interpretations?

    Matthias Bauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
     
 
 

Archive for October, 2018

 
  • An article on writing explanatory notes

    Recently the blog for The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson ran an article on “Writing explanatory notes” by Richard Dury.  He offers Lesley Graham’s […]