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6%OFFJennifer Devere Brody - Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play - 9780822342359 - V9780822342359
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Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play

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Description for Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play Paperback. Punctuation offers playful interpretations of punctuation in relation to aesthetics, performance, and experimental art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, 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.Brody provides a playful, erudite meditation on punctuation's power ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822342359
SKU
V9780822342359
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About Jennifer Devere Brody
Jennifer DeVere Brody is Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play
A puncturing of semantic space, Jennifer DeVere Brody's Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play performs at every turn a subversive politics that celebrates the margins as places where the real deal goes down. . . . Hats off to Brody for taking us someplace new.
Gregory Kirk Murray
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This is the book that puts ... Read more

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