ANNE TONER. Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission
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ANNE TONER. Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission. / Lupton, Tina Jane.
In: Review of English Studies, 2016, p. 806-807.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research › peer-review
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T1 - ANNE TONER. Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission
AU - Lupton, Tina Jane
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - As a freshman, I once met a PhD Student writing about the use of the comma in Jane Austen. For years the thesis topic kept me entertained as an example of how narrowly focused literary study could become. Reading Anne Toner's Ellipsis in English Literature commits me to a recantation of that joke. There is plenty to be learnt here from thinking closely about the uses of ellipses—dashes, dots, asterisks, etc—at different points in history. And Toner's focus on detail does not obscure the bigger story that she is able to tell, about ...
AB - As a freshman, I once met a PhD Student writing about the use of the comma in Jane Austen. For years the thesis topic kept me entertained as an example of how narrowly focused literary study could become. Reading Anne Toner's Ellipsis in English Literature commits me to a recantation of that joke. There is plenty to be learnt here from thinking closely about the uses of ellipses—dashes, dots, asterisks, etc—at different points in history. And Toner's focus on detail does not obscure the bigger story that she is able to tell, about ...
M3 - Literature review
SP - 806
EP - 807
JO - The Review of English Studies
JF - The Review of English Studies
SN - 0034-6551
ER -
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