‘A sad hand at your punctuation’: If writer’s don’t care, why should we?

‘A sad hand at your punctuation’: if writers don’t care, why should we? When I lived in Scotland while doing my PhD, I once threw a 90s music party for which people were asked to come dressed in what that era requires: garish make-up, pigtails, baggy shirts, large loud patterns. My flatmates didn’t believe it […]

Back to Basics: What is Punctuation?

back to basics: what is punctuation? I’ve been working on an encyclopaedia entry on punctuation in literature in the past couple of days, and it’s been a lot of fun, thinking about – well, so many things: With punctuation, you need to unpick its relationship between rhetoric and grammar, that it has a perpetual foot in […]