The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing

Fictional characters in non-fiction works

The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing (2011), 29, (2), 65–69.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2011.15
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English
Pages
5

Abstract

Drawing mainly on postings to Index-L in the period 2008–11, Madeleine Davis explores the various approaches indexers have taken to the indexing of fictional characters in non-fiction works. She concludes that there are no ‘authoritative’ pronouncements on the subject, that any rules there may have been have become less prescriptive than they once were, and that (as so often in indexing) the only rule is that ‘it all depends’.

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Bell, H. K. (2004) Indexing biographies and other stories of human lives, 3rd edn. Society of Indexers Occasional Papers on Indexing. Indexing biographies and other stories of human lives Google Scholar

Booth, P. F. (2001) Indexing: The manual of good practice, Munich: K G Saur. Indexing: The manual of good practice Google Scholar

Browne, G. and Jermey, J. (2007) The indexing companion, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. The indexing companion Google Scholar

Mulvany, N. C. (2005) Indexing books, 2nd edn. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. Indexing books Google Scholar

Wellisch, H. H. (1995) Indexing from A to Z, 2nd edn. New York: H. W. Wilson. Indexing from A to Z Google Scholar

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Davis, Madeleine