Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Paperback
de: Jennifer DeVere Brody
Publicat de: Duke University Press
Anunta-ma cand revine pe stoc!Brody provides a playful, erudite meditation on punctuation's power to direct discourse and, consequently, to shape human subjectivity. Her analysis ranges from a consideration of typography as a mode for representing black subjectivity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to a reflection on hyphenation and identity politics in light of Strunk and White's prediction that the hyphen would disappear from written English. Ultimately, Brody takes punctuation off the "stage of the page" to examine visual and performance artists' experimentation with non-grammatical punctuation. She looks at different ways that punctuation performs as gesture in dances choreographed by Bill T. Jones, in the hybrid sculpture of Richard Artschwager, in the multimedia works of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and in Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Brody concludes with a reflection on the future of punctuation in the digital era.
About author(s):
Jennifer DeVere Brody is Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, also published by Duke University Press.
General | |
Anul | 2008 |
Autor | Jennifer DeVere Brody |
Cod de bare | 9780822342359 |
Editura | Duke University Press |
Dimensiuni | 232 x 155 |
ISBN | 0822342359 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 221 |
Format | Brosata |