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Title Meaningful absence across arts and media : the significance of missing signifiers / edited by Werner Wolf, Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

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Series Studies in intermediality ; Volume 11
Studies in intermediality ; v. 11.
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
Summary This volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, et cetera, treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Silence in literature.
Silence in music.
Absence in literature.
Absence in music.
Quietude.
Quietude in literature.
Presence (Philosophy)
Nonverbal communication.
Nonverbal Communication
presence.
Silencio -- En la literatura
Silencio -- En la música
Comunicación no verbal
Absence in literature
Absence in music
Nonverbal communication
Presence (Philosophy)
Quietude
Quietude in literature
Silence in literature
Silence in music
Form Electronic book
Author Wolf, Werner, 1955- editor.
Balestrini, Nassim Winnie, editor
Bernhart, Walter, editor
LC no. 2019003406
ISBN 9004394524
9789004394520