Background
Lennard, John Chevening was born on June 16, 1964 in Bristol, Avon, England. Son of Michael Briart and Joan Kathleen Lennard.
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For three centuries grammarians have argued about the necessity of parentheses. While some consider them subordinate, additional, irrelevant, and even damaging to the clarity of argument, Lennard's history explores how writers such as Marlowe, Swift, Coleridge, Browning, Derek Walcott, and e.e. cummings used them in their work as vehicles for pointing dramatic gesture, controlling tone, adding humor, and intensifying satire, in addition to contributing to the clarity of argument. Lennard offers both a new history of the poetic use of parentheses from their first appearance in England in 1494 to the present day, and detailed case-studies of five major poets who exploited them. He reveals how in each period the patterns of literary use have reflected, and continue to reflect, technological, philosophical, and political developments.
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Lennard, John Chevening was born on June 16, 1964 in Bristol, Avon, England. Son of Michael Briart and Joan Kathleen Lennard.
Bachelor, New College, Oxford, England, 1985; Doctor of Philosophy, New College, 1990; Master of Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, 1986.
Tutor Open University, Bristol, 1990-1991, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, Surrey, England, 1990-1991. Fellow, director of studies in English Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England, 1991-1998. Newton Trust lecturer Faculty of English, 1993-1998.
Associate professor University Notre Dame, London, since 1998. Assistant professor British-American Drama Academy, since 1998. Global virtual professor Fairleigh Dickinson University, since 2002.
Examiner Faculty of English, Cambridge, 1993-1998.
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