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Hazrat, Florence

 
9781567927870: An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
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ISBN 10 : 1567927874 ISBN 13 : 9781567927870
Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher, 2023

Synopsis

"Splendid exploration"--Wall Street Journal


Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation marks are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. So what's the deal with ! ?

Whether you think it's over-used, or enthusiastically sprinkle your writing with it, ! is inescapable. An Admirable Point recuperates the exclamation mark from its much maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy. It explores how ! came about in the first place some six hundred years ago, and uncovers the many ways in which ! has left its mark on art, literature, (pop) culture, and just about any sphere of human activity--from Beowulf to spam emails, ee cummings to neuroscience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Florence Hazrat is a writer and researcher based in Berlin, working on punctuation in language and culture, and on Renaissance literature. Before she discovered her secret passion for the exclamation point she was a fellow at the University of Sheffield, studying brackets in early modern literature, and at the University of Geneva, working on Shakespeare translations. Florence has been educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews where she has received her PhD on refrains in sixteenth-century poetry and drama. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker, making programs about literature for a general audience.

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Éditeur
David R. Godine Publisher
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1567927874
ISBN 13 
9781567927870
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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