Quoting Patrick Conley <p...@conley.de>: > Karen, > > Why not use the distinction between volume (Harry Potter) and series > (Great Classics)?
Patrick - You're saying that Harry Potter could be considered different volumes of the same story? That makes sense. However, there are also books that are published in more than one volume, but at the same time -- that is, where the book is simply broken into different physical parts even though it's one "book". (That doesn't happen much today because the actual printing process can handle very large books, but about a century ago that was more common.) We also use "volume" for that situation. (Formally: "multi-volume monographs") The Harry Potter books are separate books, separate stories, published at different times, each that can be read alone but they come one after another, which is why they are a "series." In fact, there are many ways that books turn up in something we call a series... So I decided to try to define them all (I probably missed some, please add): - Some are groups of books that have something in common (often the same characters) but are not given a single name (Harry Potter books is an example -- there isn't any series name on the books themselves -- but there are also lots of these in mystery and detective books) - Some get a name after a while (Discworld books) - Some have a name from the beginning (Remembrance of Things Past, Great Books) - Some are born with a planned end (Remembrance again; Great Books; the Kinsey Millhone mysteries going from A to Z) - Some have no planned end and just grow until they stop for some reason (Harry Potter; the Stieg Larssen books, Discworld); the author loses interest, the publisher loses money, or the author dies. - Some are books by a single author (Harry Potter, Discworld, various mystery writers). These are sometimes called "author series." - Some are books that are by different authors but have a theme of some kind (many scientific series are in this group, Vintage Classics, Literary Conversations Series, Star Wars). Sometimes these are referred to as "publishers series" and sometimes "monographic series" although the latter tend to be more formal a unit than the former. - Some are given numbers by the publisher, so that you can be sure you get every one of them. Sometimes these are sold as a subscription, like a journal. (University of California publications in classical philology. v. 5, no. 3). These are usually called "Monographic series". Actually, this was kind of fun. I'll be interested to see what you all can add. kc > > -patrick > > > Am 27.12.2010 02:20, schrieb Karen Coyle: >> Sarah, >> >> ... It seems to me that our vocabulary is poor in this area -- it doesn't >> make sense that both of these are called by the same name. If you have >> other ideas for what to call them -- please send a suggestion. >> >> kc > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
