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Reverberations of Silence : Silenced Texts, Sub-Texts and Authors in Literature, Language and Translation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443865852
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reverberations of SilenceDDC classification:
  • 809.93384
LOC classification:
  • PN56.S55 -- .R484 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: CURIOUS REVERBERATIONS -- THE TELLING SILENCES OF A GARRULOUS TUDOR -- DOOMED TO REMAIN ON THE PAGE? -- ACRASIA'S SILENT SONG AND VERBAL TEMPTATION AT THE BOWER OF BLISS IN EDMUND SPENSER'S THE FAERIE QUEENE -- SILENCING THE WORD AND WORDING THE UNSPOKEN -- PART II: FRAGILE PERSONALITIES AND SILENCED WOMEN -- "A VOICE IS WANTING" -- EMILY DICKINSON'S PSEUDO SILENCE -- GENTLEWOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH -- PART III: TRAUMATIC SILENCES -- THE SILENT MOTHERS OF RICHARD WRIGHT AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON -- "SONGS THAT VOICES NEVER SHARE" -- "SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF SHOOTING STARS -- THE VOICE OF THE DEAD -- ANA CASTILLO -- TROPES OF SILENCE IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S SHAME -- THE PROVOCATIVE SILENCE OF KAZUO ISHIGURO'S CHARACTERS -- THE LOCATION AND NATURE OF LIMINAL SILENCES IN THE SHELTERING SKY -- PART IV: TELLING SILENCES -- TRANSLATING SILENCE -- SILENT PAUSES AND LEXICAL RETRIEVAL -- EMPTINESS IN PHONOLOGY -- A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF INVISIBLE ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Whether a conscious choice or constraint, silence has always been the result of oppression, censorship, trauma, and mental or physical handicap. Its provocative and mysterious nature has always motivated readers and critics towards interpretation. The present volume offers to read and interpret silence - unexpressed emotions, thoughts, hesitations and gestures - on mainly a textual and verbal level. How is the pervasive presence of silence explained in literature and linguistics? The collecte.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: CURIOUS REVERBERATIONS -- THE TELLING SILENCES OF A GARRULOUS TUDOR -- DOOMED TO REMAIN ON THE PAGE? -- ACRASIA'S SILENT SONG AND VERBAL TEMPTATION AT THE BOWER OF BLISS IN EDMUND SPENSER'S THE FAERIE QUEENE -- SILENCING THE WORD AND WORDING THE UNSPOKEN -- PART II: FRAGILE PERSONALITIES AND SILENCED WOMEN -- "A VOICE IS WANTING" -- EMILY DICKINSON'S PSEUDO SILENCE -- GENTLEWOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH -- PART III: TRAUMATIC SILENCES -- THE SILENT MOTHERS OF RICHARD WRIGHT AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON -- "SONGS THAT VOICES NEVER SHARE" -- "SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF SHOOTING STARS -- THE VOICE OF THE DEAD -- ANA CASTILLO -- TROPES OF SILENCE IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S SHAME -- THE PROVOCATIVE SILENCE OF KAZUO ISHIGURO'S CHARACTERS -- THE LOCATION AND NATURE OF LIMINAL SILENCES IN THE SHELTERING SKY -- PART IV: TELLING SILENCES -- TRANSLATING SILENCE -- SILENT PAUSES AND LEXICAL RETRIEVAL -- EMPTINESS IN PHONOLOGY -- A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF INVISIBLE ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Whether a conscious choice or constraint, silence has always been the result of oppression, censorship, trauma, and mental or physical handicap. Its provocative and mysterious nature has always motivated readers and critics towards interpretation. The present volume offers to read and interpret silence - unexpressed emotions, thoughts, hesitations and gestures - on mainly a textual and verbal level. How is the pervasive presence of silence explained in literature and linguistics? The collecte.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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