Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson
Author:Cecelia Watson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2019-07-29T23:00:00+00:00
D. H. Lawrence, who helped dredge Melville back up from obscurity in the 1920s, wrote of Moby-Dick that “there is something really overwhelming in these whale-hunts, almost superhuman or inhuman, bigger than life, more terrific than human activity.” In its narrative structure and ambition as well as its themes, Moby-Dick was ahead of its time, in uncharted waters. Just as sailors needed instruments to wander out past sight of shore, Moby-Dick required writing technologies that could allow it to venture out beyond the genre constraints of its time, and one of those technological marvels—as slender and significant as a compass needle—was the semicolon.
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