"""Shows how punctuation and personality are intertwined through profiles of classic modernist authors""--"
By:
Lee Clark Mitchell
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 197mm,
Width: 127mm,
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9781501360725
ISBN 10: 1501360728
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 06 August 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
,
Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Prologue: What Can Punctuation Do? 1. Silence: Hemingway’s Periods 2. Hesitation: Baldwin’s Commas 3. Interruption: James’s Dashes 4. Rupture: Dickinson’s Dashes 5. Expansion: Woolf’s Semicolons 6. Hemorrhage: Joyce, Morrison, Saramago, Sebald 7. Enjambment: Cummings, Williams, Giovanni 8. Incarceration: Nabokov’s Parentheses 9. Plenitude: Faulkner’s Array Epilogue: Punctuation as Style Bibliography Index
Lee Clark Mitchell is Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of seven books, including Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels (Bloomsbury 2017), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year.
Reviews for Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature
Mitchell's sustained insight pushes the literary beyond alphabetic letters by recovering punctuation as more than an interface between words and the grammar of their articulation. In its most telling deployments, punctuation marks the conversion of format to content, seam to semantic gesture. Reading gets closer than ever, and with new power, in this study's riveting cross section of examples. On both prose and poetry, it's a terrific book, period. * Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA, and author of The Value of Style in Fiction (2018) *