But I Digress

The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse

Inbunden, Engelska, 1991

AvJohn Lennard,Cambridge) Lennard, John (Staff Fellow, Staff Fellow, Trinity Hall

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Dr Johnson disapproved of parentheses and wouldn't use them; and for three centuries grammarians have argued that they are subordinate, additional, unnecessary, irrelevant, and damaging to the clarity of argument. But for Marlowe, Marvell, Swift, Coleridge, Byron, Browning, Eliot, Geoffrey Hill, and Derek Walcott (to name only poets) parentheses have been emphatic, original, necessary, relevant, and essential to the clarity of argument. They also intensify satire. Dr Lennard offers both a new history of the poetic use of lunulae (the marks of parenthesis) from their first appearance in England in 1494 to the present day, and detailed case-studies of individual poets who exploited lunulae. In combination the historical development of use and the individual's practice in a given period reveal the impact on literary composition of technological, philosophical, and political pressures, and the importance for the reader of regarding punctuation as a resource.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1991-11-21
Mått161 x 241 x 24 mm
Vikt714 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor340
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198112471

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History and terminology; 1494-1640 - translating into print; Marvell etc - genre, religion and modes of reading; 1680-1780 - the dislike of dubiety; a philosophy of moonshine - Coleridge, memory and imagination; 1810-1918 - reassertions of human scale (Burke, Sterne, Cobbett, Byron, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Owen); in eliot's penumbra - time and absence; 1942- - the modern range; definitions and theses (methodologies, histories, psychologies)

`subtle and wide-ranging investigation of the parenthesis in English poetry ... The excellences of Lennard's study are too many and, in many cases, too delicate to be easily stated. In its combination of the interpretive and historical study of punctuation, it may prove to be one of those rare books actually to invent, rather than merely to further, a field of study ... such a rich and rare one that the verve of his readings occasionally outstrips their self-evident cogency.'Durham University Journal

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