Details

Subject(s)

• Written communication [Browse]
• Signs and symbols [Browse]
• Punctuation [Browse]

Related name

• Plug, Jan [Browse]

Series

• Verbal arts--studies in poetics. [More in this series]
• Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Summary note

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 angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation—or as Peter Szendy asks us to think of it, punchuation? Of Stigmatology elaborates for the first time a general theory of punctuation. Beginning with punctuation marks in the common sense, Peter Szendy goes on to trace the effects of punctuation more broadly, arguing that looking and hearing are not passive acts of reception, but themselves punctuate the images and sounds they take in. Szendy reads an astonishing range of texts and traditions, from medical auscultation to literature (Chekhov, Sterne, Kafka), philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and film (Raging Bull, The Trial, Fight Club).Repeatedly, what Szendy finds in these works is a punctuation that marks experience itself, that seeks (and ultimately fails) to bind the subject to itself. This is the stigmatology of the punctuation mark on the page that structures texts from ancient to digital, as well as the punchuation of experience, as though at the hands of a boxer.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Front matter
• 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

Show 16 more Contents items

ISBN

• 9780823278145
• 082327814X

OCLC

1013521947

Doi

• 10.1515/9780823278145

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...