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The Century of Artists' Books.

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Date: 19970701
Author:Trusky, Tom

In "Metaphor and Form," the last chapter of The Century of Artists' Books, Johanna Drucker recalls a scene in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847). The narrator, Mr. Lockwood, has discovered a jumble of books once belonging to Heathcliff's beloved Catherine Earnshaw and is surprised to discover Catherine made use of even unread volumes. Of Catherine's books, Bronte writes and Drucker quotes: "scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen and ink commentary -- at least the appearance of one -- covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left. Some were detached sentences; other ...

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