Tags
Language
Tags
<<
July 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
30 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 1 2 3
  1. Home
  2. eBooks & eLearning
  3. Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 10 Jun 2023 04:10:02
Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

Lee Clark Mitchell, "Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature"
English | ISBN: 1501360736 | 2020 | 192 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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,
Read more
UPWARDS