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• Title:An admirable point : a brief history of the exclamation mark! / Florence Hazrat.
  
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• Variant Title:Brief history of the exclamation mark!
  
• Author/Creator:Hazrat, Florence, author.
  
• Published/Created:Boston : Godine, 2023.
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P301.5.P86 H39 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Exclamation point--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Creative nonfiction.
  Humor.
  
• Edition:[First U.S. edition]
  
• Description:175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation point. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation points are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a Discworld character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. So what's the deal with ! ? AN ADMIRABLE POINT recuperates the exclamation point from its much-maligned and misunderstood place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy. It explores how ! came about in the first place some six hundred years ago, and uncovers the many ways in which ! has left its mark on art, literature, (pop) culture, and just about any sphere of human activity - from Beowulf to spam emails, ee cummings to neuroscience. Whether you think it's over-used, or enthusiastically sprinkle your writing with it, ! is inescapable"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Edition statement found on Editor's note.
  "First published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd. in 2022"--Title page verso.
  Includes index.
  
• ISBN:9781567927870 paperback
  1567927874 paperback
  9781567927887 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One very pathetical point !through the ages
  ch. Two period that blew its top Thinking and feeling!
  ch. Three `So !f!' Literature and theflaming pink scarf
  ch. Four Oi!!! Perking up with punctuation
  ch. Five Radiating punctuation Exclamatory politics and the nuclear bomb
  ch. Six At your fingertips Digital!.