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Punctuation

Jennifer DeVere Brody

2008221 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Duke University Press · ENGISBN 9781283022781
  • 2008Duke University Press · 221 pages · ENGISBN 9780822342182
  • 2008Duke University Press · 234 pages · ENGISBN 9780822389095

"In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital art, from emoticons to dance pieces, Brody suggests that instead of always clarifying meaning, punctuation can sometimes open up space for interpretation, enabling writers and visual artists to interrogate and reformulate notions of life, death, art, and identity politics"--Publisher's description.

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