
Silent Word - Textual Meaning And The Unwritten, The
NUS Press
Will be published approx. on 25. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-9971-69-211-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 147 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-9971-69-211-7 (9789971692117)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
The overwritten unwritten - nationalism and its doubles in post-colonial theory, R.J.C. Young; the politics of the unwritten and the question of value, I. Small; notes on atavism, D.W. Davis; epic, colonialism, empire - a reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained", W. Lim; after the (unwritten "post-colonial" in southeast Asia - what happens next? I.S. Talib; relativity, uncertainty and imaginary time - the pseudoscientific basis of postmodernist literary theory, C. Carleton; memories in black and white - style and theme in Spielberg's "Schindler's List", T.R. White, L. Stiller; the role of Bangsawan theatre in the evolution of modern Malay drama, C.M. Chan; fetishism and Maugham's "The Letter", K.C. Ban; inducing the hole -paratactic structure and the unwritten "Canterbury Tales", A. Lindley; Virginia Woolf's "As if" in "To the Lighthouse" - the modernist philosophy of meaning in absentia, R. Lumsden; unwritten fetishes and theoretical strategies in Matthew Arnold's "Criticism", R.B.H. Goh; the unwritten and the unwritten of Ruskin's "Art Criticism", A. Leng; unspeakable fury - the silence of Klytaimnestra in "Agamemnon", to line 258, T. Dawson.