Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media : The Significance of Missing Signifiers.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Meaningful Absence across Media. The Potential Significance of Missing Signifiers -- Werner Wolf -- Chapter 2 -- Absent Signifiers in Contemporary American Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction -- Nassim Winnie Balestrini -- Chapter 3 -- A Sentence is a Half-Formed Thing: Observations on Iconic and Indexical (Morpho)Syntactic Blanks Inspired by Eimear McBride's Debut Novel -- Olga Fischer -- Chapter 4 -- On the Impact of Voids: Musical Silence and Visual Absence in Film -- Saskia Jaszoltowski -- Chapter 5 -- Significant Absence in Narrative Fiction Film -- Klaus Rieser -- Chapter 6 -- Gaps as Significant Absences: the Case of Serial Comics -- Daniel Stein -- Chapter 7 -- Dramaturgy of Silence: Absence as a Means of Structural Tension in Joseph Haydn's String Quartets -- Peter Revers -- Chapter 8 -- Absence of Words and Absence of Music in Opera -- Walter Bernhart -- Chapter 9 -- "Où est l'art? perdu, disparu!": Meaningful Absence in 19th- to 21st-Century Painting -- Henry Keazor -- Chapter 10 -- Silent Spaces: Absent Signifiers in Modernist Architecture -- Anselm Wagner -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

This volume focusses on the rarely discussed method of meaning production via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media.

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