title: “[…] which approximates ‘I love you’.” Jonathan Safran Foer’s Punctuation of Emotions
abstract: A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" by Jonathan Safran Foer is a short story without an actual plot.Being a primer, it constitutes a manual that provides a system of signs which can be applied to conversations in order to clarify the meaning and context of words, expressions and silences.There is, e.g. , the "silence mark", which "signifies an absence of language", a painful kind of silence that is caused mostly by the incapability of expressing feelings or reacting to strong emotions
journal: transcript Verlag eBooks