Of Stigmatology : Punctuation as Experience / Peter Szendy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szendy, Peter, Author.

Contributor:

Plug, Jan

Series:

Verbal arts--studies in poetics.

Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Standardized Title:

À coups de points. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Written communication.

Signs and symbols.

Punctuation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation—or as Peter Szendy asks us to think of it, punchuation? Of Stigmatology elaborates for the first time a general theory of punctuation. Beginning with punctuation marks in the common sense, Peter Szendy goes on to trace the effects of punctuation more broadly, arguing that looking and hearing are not passive acts of reception, but themselves punctuate the images and sounds they take in. Szendy reads an astonishing range of texts and traditions, from medical auscultation to literature (Chekhov, Sterne, Kafka), philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and film (Raging Bull, The Trial, Fight Club).Repeatedly, what Szendy finds in these works is a punctuation that marks experience itself, that seeks (and ultimately fails) to bind the subject to itself. This is the stigmatology of the punctuation mark on the page that structures texts from ancient to digital, as well as the punchuation of experience, as though at the hands of a boxer.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Translator’s Note

1 Stigmatology

2 From the Rubrica to the Smiley: A Portable History

3 The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram’s Cut

4 (Un)pointings

5 P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida)

6 Phrasing, or The Holes in Meaning

7 The Dotted Lines of Auscultation

8 Monauralisms, or The Bubble of Quotation Marks

9 Punctum Saliens, or The Pulsating Point

10 The Point of the Overcast Stitch

11 Ekphrasis

12 General Chatter

13 Punctuation and Politics, or Th e Dot above the i

14 Final Survey

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823278145

082327814X

OCLC:

1013521947