{"product_id":"punctuation-jennifer-devere-brody-9780822342182","title":"Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play","description":"In \u003ci\u003ePunctuation: Art, Politics, and Play\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital art, from emoticons to dance pieces, Brody suggests that instead of always clarifying meaning, punctuation can sometimes open up space for interpretation, enabling writers and visual artists to interrogate and reformulate notions of life, death, art, and identity politics. \u003cp\u003eBrody 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 \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMe and You and Everyone We Know\u003c\/i\u003e. Brody concludes with a reflection on the future of punctuation in the digital era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer DeVere Brody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822342189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822342182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2008 pg. 21","brand":"Jennifer DeVere Brody","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086970630399,"sku":"9780822342182","price":112.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f03a2b27-56a2-41fc-8304-661c97826dd0.jpg?v=1769097555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/punctuation-jennifer-devere-brody-9780822342182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}