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Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

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ISBN10: 1501360728
ISBN13: 9781501360725
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 14 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

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?

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