Meaningful absence across arts and media : the significance of missing signifiers / edited by Werner Wolf, Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolf, Werner, 1955- editor.

Balestrini, Nassim Winnie, editor.

Bernhart, Walter, editor.

Series:

Studies in intermediality ; Volume 11.

Studies in intermediality ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence in literature.

Silence in music.

Absence in literature.

Absence in music.

Quietude.

Quietude in literature.

Presence (Philosophy).

Nonverbal communication.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

Contents:

List of figures

Notes on contributors

1. Introduction: Meaningful absence across media. the potential significance of missing signifiers / Werner Wolf

2. Absent signifiers in contemporary American fiction and creative non-fiction / Nassim Winnie Balestrini

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

4. On the Impact of Voids: Musical Silence and Visual Absence in Film / Saskia Jaszoltowski

5. Significant Absence in Narrative Fiction Film / Klaus Rieser

6. Gaps as Significant Absences: the Case of Serial Comics / Daniel Stein

7. Dramaturgy of Silence: Absence as a Means of Structural Tension in Joseph Haydn's String Quartets / Peter Revers

8. Absence of Words and Absence of Music in Opera / Walter Bernhart

9. "Ou est l'art? perdu, disparu!": Meaningful Absence in 19th to 21st-century Painting / Henry Keazor

10. Silent Spaces: Absent Signifiers in Modernist Architecture / Anselm Wagner

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Meaningful absence across arts and media

ISBN:

9789004391727

900439172X

OCLC:

1083691144