- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 2020
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 178pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 195x126mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781501360725
- Product code: 537824
Mark My Words
Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature
Lee Clark Mitchell New Paperback
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Henry James’ mastery of dashes, Virginia Woolf’s ‘decided preference for semicolons’, the 450 parentheses in Nabokov’s Lolita, and the writers and poets who abandoned punctuation altogether… Professor Mitchell explores the ‘topographies of punctuation that signal a writer’s signature style’.
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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.
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.
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Henry James’ mastery of dashes, Virginia Woolf’s ‘decided preference for semicolons’, the 450 parentheses in Nabokov’s <i>Lolita</i>, and the writers and poets who abandoned punctuation altogether… Professor Mitchell explores the ‘topographies of punctuation that signal a writer’s signature style’.
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