Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience

by Peter Szendy

Book Overview

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation--or as Peter Szendy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823278123
• ISBN13: 9780823278121
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"