In the Land of Punctuation
First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern's Im Reich der Interpunktionen (In the Land of Punctuation) is a comic poem on the flow of landuage - and the breaks in it. Punctuations signs are markers of pauses, interruptions, asides and stops. But they also point to intonation, intent and emotion. a fact used brilliantly by Morgenstern to turn them into characters with their own agendas, in a drama that careens toward an inevitable end. It is a fun romp, and yet the political undertones are unmistakable, suggesting menacing systems of control.Adding a new dimension to the connection between marks and meaning, graphic disigner Ra…
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Weitere Autoren: Ramanathan, Rathna (Hrsg.) / Rao, Sirish (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-93-83145-15-7
- EAN: 9789383145157
- Produktnummer: 21873591
- Verlag: Tara Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 32 S.
- Masse: H36.3 cm x B24.5 cm x D1.5 cm 624 g
- Gewicht: 624
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Christian Morgernstern (1871-1914) was a late 19th Century German poet whose dark and capricious verse was inspired by English Literary nonsense. A satirist of the highest order, his work has continued to delight generations of Germans.
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