Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

ISBN-13: 9781107421325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 265 str.

Anne Toner

Opis

A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.

Recenzje

'[Toner] does not pursue a handful of extensive close readings or author-centred chapters: she sprints with wonderful concision and economy through five centuries of English literature …' Owen Boynton, Essays in Criticism

Spis treści

Introduction: observing the ellipsis; 1. Ellipsis marks in early printed drama; 2. Chasms and the eighteenth-century novel; 3. Ellipsis and the ends of novels; 4. Nineteenth-century 'explorations in Dot-and-Dashland'; 5. Ellipsis and modernity.