Download or read book Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator written by Elspeth Jajdelska and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses historical, linguistic, and literary evidence to discuss the reorientation of the text and reader towards one another. This work investigates changes in punctuation, sentence structure, and letter and diary writing in the period to illuminate the emergence of a different prose style and the birth of the narrator