TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hazrat,Florence
TI  - An admirable point: a brief history of the exclamation mark! 
SN  - 9781567927870
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Godine
KW  - Exclamation point
KW  - History
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; Edition statement found on Editor's note; "First published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd. in 2022"--Title page verso; Introduction: The spiked delights of ! -- A very pathetical point : ! through ages -- The period that blew its top : thinking and feeling ! -- 'so !f!' : literature and the flaming pink scarf -- Oi!!! : perking up with punctuation -- Radiating punctuation : exclamatory politics and the nuclear bomb -- At your fingertips : digital ! -- Epilogue: Quo vadis!
N2  - "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"--
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