Mark my words
profiles of punctuation in modern literature
Bände/Inhalt:
- 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.
- "Shows how punctuation and personality are intertwined through profiles of classic modernist authors"--