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The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
Part One of this serialized survey (Courier 23.2, Fall 1988) dealt with the emergence of a late-Classical and early-Christian interest in eliciting, with 'euphuistic' punctating techniques, the voice patterns inherent in text. Part Two, herewith, gives attention to the Middle Ages. In this haphazard era, logical punctuation, which concentrates on syntactical structures and is therefore more appealing to eye than ear, begins its faltering growth.