In the afternoon 10 March webinar "DDC 23: A Sneak Preview," there was a question: "Any major changes in literature numbers?" Here we’ll focus on changes in the 800s, and cover changes to Table 3 Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms in a later blog.
DDC 23 has a few new numbers in the rhetoric portion of 808 Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures. Here are examples, with sample titles:
808.025 Plagiarism
Stop Plagiarism: A Guide to Understanding and Prevention
Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies
808.032 Figures of speech
Skin like Milk, Hair of Silk: What Are Similes and Metaphors?
Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase
808.512 Toasts and after-dinner speeches
Cheers! : 1,024 Toasts & Sentiments for Every Occasion
To the Happy Couple: Creating a Great Wedding Toast with Style
Before DDC 23, T3C—8–9 Literature for and by groups of people was used throughout the 800s, except in the following areas:
808.81–808.88 Collections in specific forms
809.1–809.7 Literature in specific forms
In those areas, the standard subdivision T1—08 Groups of people was supposed to be used, with 00 instead of 0. Changes have been made to allow regular use of T3C—8–9 Literature for and by groups of people. Here are examples, with sample titles:
808.8199287 Collections of poetry for and by women (built with 808.8199 Poetry for and by groups of people with specific attributes, residents of specific areas plus 287 from T3C—9287 Women, following instructions at 808.8199)
Ain't I a Woman! : Classic Poetry by Women from around the World
A Thousand Years of Women's Poetry
809.199287 History, description, critical appraisal of poetry for and by women (built with 809 History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures plus 199287 from 808.8199287 Collections of poetry for and by women, following instructions at 809.1–809.7 Literature in specific forms other than miscellaneous writings)
The Tenth Muse: Women Poets before 1806: A Rediscovery of 540 Women Poets Lost to History
A previous blog explained a change to eliminate the anomaly of two slightly different standard literary period tables for 810 American literature in English: the special literary period table for Canadian literature in English was made optional.
Several new provisions in 810–890 Literatures of specific languages and language families parallel changes in Table 6 Languages. Many of these changes have already taken effect, e.g., the provision for literature in the Croatian language at 891.83 Croatian literature. Here is an example of a built number for a novel originally written in Croatian and a title for which it is used:
891.83354 Croatian fiction, 1945–1991 (built with 891.83 Croatian literature plus T3A—3 Fiction, as instructed at 891.831–891.838 Subdivisions for specific forms of Croatian literature and the beginning of Table 3, plus 54 1945–1991 from the period table at 891.831–891.838, as instructed at T3A—31–39 Specific periods)
Ministarstvo boli. English
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić; translated from Croatian by Michael Henry Heim
There is a new provision in DDC 23 for literature in the Galician language at 869.9 Galician literature. Plans for that number and its literary period table were explained in a previous blog. Here is an example of a built number for a novel originally written in Galician and a title for which the number can be used:
869.934 Galician fiction, 1900–1999 (built with 869.9 Galician literature plus T3A—3 Fiction, as instructed by the footnote at 869.9 and the beginning of Table 3, plus 4 1900–1999 from the period table at 869.9, as instructed at T3A—31–39 Specific periods)
Lapis do carpinteiro. English
The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne
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