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“Now someone’s talking”: Unpunctuation and the Deadpan Poem

Author(s):

Calista McRae (see profile)

Date:

2018

Subject(s):

American poetry, Twentieth century, Comedy, Punctuation

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

deadpan, unpunctuation, buster keaton, archy and mehitabel, tone, Modernism, 20th-century American poetry, American modernism, Comedy (genre)

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/vh6c-hf52

Abstract:

Omitting punctuation creates a poem usefully described as /deadpan/: it suppresses, plays down, or disguises tone

Notes:

this essay is also available behind a paywall on Project Muse, at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685293

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Published as:

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Pub. DOI:

10.1353/mod.2018.0000

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date:

2018-2-4

Journal:

Modernism/modernity

Volume:

25

Issue:

1

Page Range:

1 - 20

ISSN:

1080-6601

Status:

Published

Last Updated:

4 years ago

License:

All Rights Reserved

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