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Indexing biographies and other stories of human lives / Hazel K. Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Hazel K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--Abstracting and indexing.
- Biography.
- Autobiography--Abstracting and indexing.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 141 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- 1 Narrative texts and stories of lives p. 1
- 'Soft' texts p. 1
- The narrative form p. 2
- Sensitive content p. 3
- Autobiography p. 8
- Political memoirs p. 9
- Diaries p. 10
- 2 The great and good p. 17
- Indexing masterpieces p. 17
- Award winners p. 18
- Other good 'uns p. 24
- 3 First read your book p. 29
- Analysis and annotation p. 31
- Coverage p. 33
- 4 Naming names p. 35
- Alternative forms p. 35
- John Brown, meet John Brown p. 38
- Who are all these people? p. 38
- Errors and inconsistencies p. 40
- Lord, My p. 41
- Pseudonyms p. 41
- 5 Coming to terms: subheadings p. 44
- Qualities to aim for p. 46
- Language fit for literature p. 48
- And ... p. 49
- 6 The perils of partiality p. 51
- Don't show your feelings p. 51
- Putting it nicely p. 54
- Linguistic limitation p. 55
- What-d'you-call-her? p. 55
- The constraint of standardization p. 58
- 'Have you stopped beating your wife ...?' p. 59
- 7 All in order: a proper arrangement p. 60
- Alphabetization p. 60
- Subheadings p. 61
- Page order p. 61
- Chronology observed p. 63
- The alphabetical way p. 66
- 8 Theme by theme p. 68
- Examples of paragraphed subheadings p. 69
- Tracing the themes p. 73
- 9 Mighty main characters p. 75
- Leave it out? p. 75
- Hero-treatment p. 79
- 10 The works p. 85
- Listing volumes p. 85
- Titles p. 85
- 11 Just mentioning ... p. 90
- 12 Presentation and layout p. 96
- Run-on style p. 97
- Sub-subheadings p. 98
- Indented style p. 99
- Typographical devices p. 99
- 13 The user p. 106
- Is that me ...? p. 107
- 14 Fiction p. 109
- Should fiction be indexed? p. 109
- The indexer as literary critic p. 111
- Indexing the fiction of A. S. Byatt p. 114
- Novels published with indexes p. 115.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-127) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781789621624
- 1789621623
- OCLC:
- 1144766378
- Publisher Number:
- 99984289948
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