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Mark my words : profiles of punctuation in modern literature / Lee Clark Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Punctuation.
- English language.
- Punctuation.
- Punctuation--Philosophy.
- Punctuation--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 166 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Shows how punctuation and personality are intertwined through profiles of classic modernist authors"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501360763
- 1501360760
- 9781501360749
- 1501360744
- OCLC:
- 1154421946
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