Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission by Anne Toner

By Anne Toner

Anne Toner offers an unique account of the historical past of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing curiosity in those kinds of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to catch up with to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of proposal, and the successive or fragmented nature of expertise via those textual symbols. whereas such punctuation marks could appear regimen this day, this booklet describes their emergence in early glossy drama and examines the connection among authors, printers and grammarians in advancing or obstructing the standardisation of the marks. Their improvement is explored via shut research of the works of significant English writers, together with Jonson, Shakespeare, Richardson, Sterne, Meredith and Woolf, in addition to visible illustrations in their utilization. specifically, Toner lines the evolution of ellipsis marks within the novel, a sort hugely receptive to elliptical punctuation.

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Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

Anne Toner offers an unique account of the heritage of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing curiosity in those sorts of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to catch up with to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of inspiration, and the successive or fragmented nature of expertise via those textual symbols.

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