In the humanities, apostrophe is best known for its uses in relation to lyric. In famous articles by Barbara Johnson and Jonathan Culler poetry was defined generically on the basis of apostrophe.
Apostrophe: the moment of turning away
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Poetry as Apostrophe
The contrast with other major generic modes of speaking is that in narrative somebody is speaking…
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Turning away to adress the audience
With regard to apostrophe’s powers to affect an audience, the Quintillian-passage may serve to…
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Simultaneous and dual address
The “wonder” involved consists, in part, in a change of situation that is not an event. An event…