{"id":92862,"date":"2015-12-14T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92862"},"modified":"2015-12-14T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T15:27:29","slug":"the-most-mysterious-hyphen-in-literature-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/the-most-mysterious-hyphen-in-literature-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Mysterious Hyphen in Literature, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92864\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92864\" class=\"wp-image-92864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod.jpg 2962w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/the_voyage_of_the_pequod-1024x742.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Voyage of the Pequod,\u201d 1956. One of twelve literary maps based on British and American literature produced by the Harris-Seybold Company.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Punctuation was once the stuff of radical experimentation; today it tends to be the site of tired grammatical debates, the kind that feel antiquated a mere decade or so after they first got people riled up. David Crystal\u2019s book <em>Making a Point <\/em>hopes to assuage our punctuation anxiety: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/a-history-of-punctuation-for-the-internet-age?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">In Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; to denote word divisions, writers tried a variety of strategies: dots, spaces, \u2018camel case\u2019<\/a> (that is, using capital letters rather than spaces ToMarkTheBeginningsOfNewWords). Then the rise of printing created the demand for a standardized system \u2026 A 2007 <em>Daily Mail<\/em> article titled \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-483511\/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html\" target=\"_blank\">I h8 txt msgs<\/a>\u2019 had declared that \u2018SMS vandals\u2019 were \u2018pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.\u2019 Crystal rebuffed these drastic claims: the supposed \u2018innovations\u2019 of texting, he notes\u2014abbreviations, omitted letters, ideograms, nonstandard spellings\u2014have been features of the language for centuries.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Melville must\u2019ve been an intimate of punctuation anxiety; <em>Moby-Dick<\/em> has a hyphen that seems to disappear and reappear at will. Where did it come from? What does it mean? Did he intend to put it there at all? \u201cThomas Tanselle writes that\u00a0Melville\u2019s brother, Allan, made a last-minute change to the title of the American edition. \u2018[Melville] has determined upon a new title,\u2019 his brother wrote. \u2018It is thought here that the new title will be a better <em>selling<\/em> title \u2026 Moby-Dick is a legitimate title for the book.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/moby-dick-has-mysterious-hyphen-180957512\/?is_pocket=1\" target=\"_blank\">The American edition went to press, hyphen intact, despite the fact that the whale within was only referred to with a hyphen one time<\/a> \u2026 It\u2019s still unclear whether Melville, who didn\u2019t use a hyphen inside the book, chose a hyphen for the book\u2019s title or whether his brother punctuated the title incorrectly. Whether you chalk it up to typographical error, long-obsolete custom or authorial intention, the hunt for the true story behind\u00a0<em>Moby-Dick<\/em>\u2019s hyphen continues.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Living life on the Gregorian calendar is okay\u2014the days go by, the weeks go by, the months go by, the years go by. Break up the tedium by overlaying some other markers on your worldly existence: by reading fiction, say. \u201cMemorable novels have a way of affixing a secondary story to themselves, a plot that touches tangentially, if at all, upon the plot of the book. Sometimes you recall a novel chiefly for the circumstances under which it was absorbed \u2026 It\u2019s one of the keenest and least replaceable pleasures I know\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/125467\/living-literary-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">the sense, native to a capacious novel, of existing simultaneously inside two calendars<\/a>. One plot steadily proceeds and it is called Your Life; it\u2019s the old, ongoing, errand-filled business of your datebook. The other plot is new; it\u2019s called The Novel You\u2019re Reading, and it unfolds with its own errands, its own weather and its own zodiac.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in cover judging: hats off to our art editor, Charlotte Strick, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/anatomy-of-a-cover-the-complete-works-of-flannery-oconnor\/\">design for the reissue<\/a> of Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s <em>Everything That Rises Must Converge <\/em>is among the<em> New York Times<\/em>\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/12\/09\/books\/review\/best-book-covers-of-2015.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">twelve best covers of the year<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s approach to film ratings (it doesn\u2019t have them) and censorship (plenty of that, though) reflects a nervous ideological tension\u2014and it results in some programming choices that feel frankly bizarre to a Western audience. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/china\/21679842-unusually-some-chinese-want-more-censorship-blood-and-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">Its constraints on what may appear on screen represent a laundry list of the state\u2019s anxieties<\/a>. Content must not \u2018endanger\u2019 China\u2019s unity, security or honor. It also should not \u2018twist\u2019 history, feature explicit sex or gambling, advocate \u2018the supremacy of religion\u2019 or \u2018meticulously describe fortune-telling.\u2019 Playing up violence is prohibited, in theory \u2026 A Chinese film released in 2006, <em>Curse of the Golden Flower<\/em>, was given a rating in America that required those under seventeen to be accompanied by an adult because of its violent scenes. But these scenes were left uncut when it was screened in China. Viewers were given no warning about them. On TV <em>The Patriot<\/em> (Yue Fei), a popular historical drama, commonly features long fights with bloody swords, arrows through the heart and dripping corpses. It currently airs on one channel in the early afternoon.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punctuation was once the stuff of radical experimentation; today it tends to be the site of tired grammatical debates, the kind that feel antiquated a mere decade or so after they first got people riled up. David Crystal\u2019s book Making a Point hopes to assuage our punctuation anxiety: \u201cIn Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8156,2968,434,1815,9899,20561,79,4083,20562,952,11915,16892,14787],"class_list":["post-92862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-calendar","tag-censorship","tag-charlotte-strick","tag-china","tag-covers","tag-david-crystal","tag-film","tag-herman-melville","tag-hyphens","tag-moby-dick","tag-punctuation","tag-sms","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Does Moby-Dick Have That Hyphen, 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