Comparative Literature design

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  • Gnash0

    you're looking for "annotated" editions, rather than comparative literature

    • thank you for clearing that up. i always thought annotated works were more editorialized/footno... and not compare contrast.MrAbominable
    • ^ footnotey.MrAbominable
    • Mr Archibald Footnotey Esquireset
    • There probably is a more specific word for it. I have a copy of both Dante's inferno, and the Illiad, that have side-by-side translation with notesGnash
    • I'll try and find them and post the isbn's for youGnash
    • you are a peach! thanks.MrAbominable
    • in a box at my parents' house. I'll grab them next time I'm there! I tried to find them online but no luckGnash
    • i looked too but couldn't find. thanks all the same.MrAbominable
    • didn't find them :/ somewhere in the boxes and boxes of books....Gnash
  • detritus1

    Henry David Thoreau's Walden?

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    Holy Shit, it even garnered a mention in the Guardian.
    Why am I not shocked?

    https://www.theguardian.com/book…

    • https://www.kickstar…detritus
    • looks like his vers of Walden has nice annotation but the comparison text is only in the Guardian example. Nice example though.MrAbominable
    • The guy who tried this is an ex-QBNer who had (has?) ambitions of redesigning the bible, much as your OP asks, if memory serves.detritus
    • I kicked in on that one. too bad it didn't get funded.Gnash
    • *grumbles* I thought it was fundamentally counter to whatever ethos it was Thoreau claimed to espouse, but what do I know?
      A shame for gramme, for sure.
      detritus
    • Matt's attention to type is just nutters. So well donejaylarson
    • fuck that fucking fake shit.oey
    • I don't disagree, Det. But I think it being thoughtfully annotated makes it work in this caseGnash
    • it's not just an "abridged' version - which almost always suck assGnash
    • so often, like in matt's case, when a work is approached from a place of respect and passion, the result is enlightening.Gnash
    • i meant thoreauoey