apostrophic

Examples

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• In their ambiguous status as inanimate bodies and as disembodied souls, the dead readily become subjects of apostrophic address.

  Academic text (2002)

• Don't let these girls drive off a bridge on their way home from that party," a plea or warning to the girls issued in the form of an apostrophic prayer.

  Academic text (2002)

• The apostrophic address to his mother recovers.

  Academic text (2014)

• The pain arrives with the knowledge that the daughter is left with only the position of "hero" or addressee in any apostrophic relation.

  Academic text (2002)

• An absent apostrophic "hero," such as Charles in "This Lime Tree Bower," can, after all, still read the lines addressed to him.

  Academic text (2002)

• Or does this apostrophic discourse represent the text of the mother's letters to her daughter that are discussed in her dialogues with the husband?

  Academic text (1994)

• We find two functional subtypes of this usage: (1) fictionalized or horizontal address and (2) apostrophic or vertical address.

  Academic text (1994)

• Here, the 'you' hovers somewhere between an apostrophic term of address, an instance of the deictic transfer constituting fictional reference, and pseudo-deictic 'you.'

  Academic text (1994)

• But, as well, the "Oh" of grief harbors the "O" of apostrophe, marking, with the pronounced caesura that precedes it, the apostrophic turn itself.

  Academic text (2002)

• A novel like Martin Walser's Brief an Lord Liszt would go farthest toward the apostrophic pole among epistolary novels since there are indications that the letter is never really going to be sent and thus cannot be received or responded to by the addressee.

  Academic text (1994)

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