[Milton-L] Milton in The Watchtower

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

I don't know about libraries, but laundromats usually have copies...
   
  Jeffery Hodges

John Hale <john.hale at stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
  
Do libraries take it, and on what basis do they decide?


Quoting Patrick Scott :

> The Pontifex Factor and Ho Chi Minh are not mutually incompatible.
> Pontifex refers to selling [originally tracts and Sunday school prize
> books] in maximum quantity (not to maximizing the number of readers,
> and
> maybe many were never read), Ho Chi Minh to maximizing either the
> number
> of readers or the percentage of books that were read, rather than the
> number of sales. There should be some sort of multidimensional graph
> somewhere for good-cause publishing with alternative plottings by
> different criteria (sales as against investment, readers as against
> sales, readers as against investment), letting different priorities in
> motivation chart the trade-offs.
>
> An alternative perspective on Milton in the Watchtower is to see it as
> an indication of Milton being a brand-name of continuing high
> status/value in a segment of the modern religious market that has
> little
> direct contact with the typical modern literature department (or
> presence in the the broader literary scene). Milton's brand value
> might
> be perceived or shared by any or several of the article writer, the
> magazine editor or advisors, those who fund the magazine, or those who
> distribute it so widely. Equally, it might be only ambivalently
> shared
> by the groups so far listed, and instead be perceived by any or all of
> them as a value held by all or some of those to whom the magazine is
> to
> be distributed ("the target readership"). Any of these, and
> especially
> the last, suggest that the broader residual culture of the U.S. in the
> early 2000's retains greater lingering awareness of and respect for
> the
> traditional canon than one might sometimes imagine.
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Scott
> Director of Special Collections,
> Thomas Cooper Library,
> & Professor of English,
> University of South Carolina,
> Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
> Tel: 803-777-1275
> Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
> E-mail: scottp at gwm.sc.edu
>
>
> >>> jefferyhodges at yahoo.com 8/3/2007 2:47 PM >>>
> Patrick Scott wrote:
>
> I am also reminded of an axiom in book history, the Pontifex Factor
> [after Ernest Pontifex's grandfather, the religious publisher in The
> Way
> of All Flesh]: "You sell more of a book to be given away than you do
> of
> a book to be read."
>
> Carrol Cox responded:
>
> Ho Chi Minh disagreed. Publishing a resistance paper in Vietnam in
> the late 1930s, he rejected suggestions to make it free because, he
> claimed, people would not read seriously a paper given away.
>
> Jeffery Hodges retorts:
>
> Well, Ho Chi Minh didn't know about the internet! (Though I grant
> that taking seriously a lot of what's written there doesn't always
> come
> easily...)
>
> Jeffery Hodges
>
>
> University Degrees:
>
> Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley
> (Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic
> Texts")
> M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley
> B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu
> Seoul, 130-701
> South Korea
>
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University Degrees:

Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley
(Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic Texts")
M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley
B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University

Email Address:

jefferyhodges at yahoo.com

Blog:

http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/

Office Address:

Assistant Professor Horace Jeffery Hodges
School of English, Kyung Hee University
1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu
Seoul, 130-701
South Korea

Home Address:

Dr. Sun-Ae Hwang and Dr. Horace Jeffery Hodges
Gunyoung Apt. 102-204
Sangbong-dong 1
Jungnang-gu
Seoul 131-771
South Korea
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