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New essay explores Philip Sidney's parenthetical style
Original: Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/philip-sidney-and-the-
An essay published by The Public Domain Review examines how Elizabethan poet and courtier Philip Sidney used parentheses in his writing, and how the punctuation mark was viewed with suspicion by critics of his era. The piece looks at early modern debates over grammar and style, arguing the parenthesis carried both rhetorical grace and disgrace in sixteenth-century English prose and poetry.
Why now: Readers of literary and tech discussion forums are drawn to the quirky historical angle on punctuation and Elizabethan literature.
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- Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/philip-sidney-and-the-extreme-disgraces-of-the-parenthesis/ # HackerNews # Tech # Literature · hackernews@robot.villas · 3
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