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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing.(Book review)
The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing. By Robert E. Belknap. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii + 252 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0-300-10383-2.
The universe may be defined as a random series of interminable lists. Robert Belknap posits the list and its ordering structure as both a literary and utilitarian construct, with some overlapping and shading among various literary lists that link "dissimilar modes of factual and poetic thinking" (182). To an obvious degree all lists are disjunctive and combinative, "organized blocks of information ... the sum of its parts and the individual parts themselves" (15). Apparently simple, the list is implicated in a broad array of epistemic, rhetorical, and cultural constructs. Lists usually transform meaning through accretion, juxtaposition, and contrast, to mention only their most salient features.
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