{"product_id":"mark-my-words-lee-clark-mitchell-9781501360725","title":"Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision? \u003cbr\u003eThe first book on modern literature to compare writers' punctuation, and to show how fully typographical marks alter our sense of authorial style, \u003ci\u003eMark My Words\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways of reading some of our most important and beloved writers as well as suggesting a fresh perspective on literary style itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Clark Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501360728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501360725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Lee Clark Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48930271691007,"sku":"9781501360725","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mark-my-words-lee-clark-mitchell-9781501360725","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}