Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Houston, Keith, 1977- Title: Shady characters : the secret life of punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks / Keith Houston. Edition: First edition. Description: xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time. Subjects: Punctuation -- History. Signs and symbols -- History. Type and type-founding -- History. Writing -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The pilcrow -- The interrobang -- The octothorpe -- The ampersand -- The @ symbol -- The asterisk and dagger -- The hyphen -- The dash -- The manicule -- Quotation marks -- Irony and sarcasm -- Irony in history -- Ironics -- Digital sarcasm. LCCN: 2013017324 ISBN: 9780393064421 0393064425 Other Number: 829738463 System Availability: 5 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 5 Control Number: 380632 # Local items in: 4 # System items in: 4 Call Number: 411 Houston Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
