Mark My Words
Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature
Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision? The first book on modern literature to compare writers' punctuation, and to show how fully typographical marks alter our sense of authorial style, Mark My Words offers new ways of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5013-6075-6
- EAN: 9781501360756
- Produktnummer: 34035678
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'928 KB
Über den Autor
Lee Clark Mitchell is Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of six books, including Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels (Bloomsbury 2017), which named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year, Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre (Nebraska University Press, 2018), and More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is the editor of five books, including The American by Henry James (Signet, 2005, with Introduction) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Oxford University Press, 1993, with Introduction).
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