How popular music thinks the political -- Urban punctuations: symphonic and dialectic -- Architectural punctuations: the politics of 'event spaces' -- Image punctuations: from the photographic to the cinematic -- Holocaust punctuations. "In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro exami…
In punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation--conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility--opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno…
"In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation--conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility--opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorn…
"In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation--conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility--opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorn…
Sur le bon usage de la ponctuation : virgule, point, point-virgule, points de suspension, deux-points, guillemets, parenthèses, etc. Exercices et corrigés. Un livre très bien fait, facile d'accès, avec beaucoup d'exemples. [SDM].
The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writin…
Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, ins…
"Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now 'txt msgs, ' we have made proper punctuation an endangered species ... Former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty and very English way, that it is time to look at our comma…