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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: form and theory of literary doodling
  name:
    name part: Mercurio, Jeremiah R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gabelman, Daniel
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 117 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 18 cm.
  abstract: This 'Element' investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part, Demarcation, focuses on defining the form and structure of doodles, comparing and contrasting them with adjacent genres such as sketches, caricatures and illustrations. The second part, Exploration, explores the modality of doodling, examining doodles through the lenses of spectrality, liminality and play. Drawing on a wide range of theories and backed up with numerous close readings, the Element argues that doodles, despite their apparent triviality, provide valuable insights into the creative processes, authorial habits and finished works of literary doodlers. Ultimately, this study aims to legitimize doodles as worthy of serious critical attention, demonstrating how they trouble the meaning of texts, introduce semantic flexibility into literary works and their reception, and rejuvenate the joy of readerly discovery.
  table of contents: Demarcation. Definitions ; Sketches ; Cartoons and caricatures ; Illustrations and grangerisations -- Exploration. Spectral ; Liminal; Ludic.
  note: Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [108]-117).
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Doodles
  subject:
    topic: Marginalia
  subject:
    topic: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  classification: PN171.P83 M47 2025
  classification: 808.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge elements
      part name: Elements in publishing and book culture
  identifier: 9781009492430
  identifier: 1009492438
  identifier: 9781009492416
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 241108
    record change date: 20260715144645.7
    record identifier: in00005645997