Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature (Paperback)

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 reading some of our most important and beloved writers as well as suggesting a fresh perspective on literary style itself.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2020
Authors:	Lee Clark Mitchell
Dimensions:	197 x 127mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-6072-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Biography > Literary Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-6072-8
Barcode:	9781501360725

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