Of Stigmatology : : Punctuation as Experience / / Peter Szendy.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Note
  • 1 Stigmatology
  • 2 From the Rubrica to the Smiley: A Portable History
  • 3 The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram's Cut
  • 4 (Un)pointings
  • 5 P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida)
  • 6 Phrasing, or The Holes in Meaning
  • 7 The Dotted Lines of Auscultation
  • 8 Monauralisms, or The Bubble of Quotation Marks
  • 9 Punctum Saliens, or The Pulsating Point
  • 10 The Point of the Overcast Stitch
  • 11 Ekphrasis
  • 12 General Chatter
  • 13 Punctuation and Politics, or Th e Dot above the i
  • 14 Final Survey
  • Notes
  • Index