Ellipsis in English literature : signs of omission /
Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks, dots, dashes and asterisks, in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to get closer to the hesitancies and inte...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.