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Silence and the Silenced

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Boldt, Leslie / Federici, Corrado / Virgulti, Ernesto
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ISBN/EAN: 9781433123436
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 252
Format (T/L/B): 22.0 x 15.0 cm
Einband: Gebunden

Beschreibung

comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as photography, film, painting, and architecture.

Autorenportrait

Leslie Boldt is Professor of French Studies at Brock University, where she teaches courses on French literature, cinema and culture and civilization. She is the English translator of Bataille’s and has also edited a critical anthology of essays on Bataille’s work. While she has published primarily in the field of twentieth-century French literature, she is also interested in the intersection between the literature and visual art of France. Corrado Federici is Professor of Italian at Brock University, where he teaches courses in Italian language, literature, translation, and Renaissance art. He has published on modern Italian poets and novelists and has translated six books from Italian to English. His three most recent publications are English translations of Renato Barilli, (2012); Franco Cardini, (2012); and Raffaele Milani, (2009). Ernesto Virgulti is Associate Professor of Italian at Brock University, where he teaches courses in Italian language, literature, cinema and pedagogy, and in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program. His publications cover medieval Italian literature (especially Boccaccio’s ), literary theory (narratology, semiotics), and cinema (Bertolucci and Amelio). He has also published a critical edition of Luigi Pirandello’s . Boldt, Federici, and Virgulti are also co-editors of the following volumes: (Peter Lang, 2010); (Peter Lang, 2009), (Peter Lang, 2007); and (Peter Lang, 2005).

Inhalt

Contents: Keith Grant-Davies: Rhetorical Uses of Silence and Spaces – Ariel Harrod: Sounding Silence, Composing Absence of the Screen and Stage: Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and Samuel Beckett’s – Maria Luisa Chiusa: The Visiting Muse: Antiquity and the Suggestive Power of Silence in the Room Frescoed by Correggio – Lori Yamato: Muted Epigraphs in Kierkegaard’s – Matthew Moore: Cartographic Silences in Brian Friel’s – Paul Peters: Power of the Void: Fascism and Silence in the Poetry of Bertolt Brecht and Paul Celan – Sheelagh Russell-Brown: «To have him all in black»: The ‘Absence’ of Havel in Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe: A Late Cold War Text – Magda Stoinska and Vikki Cecchetto: When the Silencer Is Also the Silenced: The Mechanisms of Self-censorship – Catherine Parayre: Milutin Gubas’s ? Or How to Foster Silence – Sandra Singer: The Image of the Falling Man Revisited – Bruce Elder: Reflections on the Violence of Art – Mark Cauchi (with Wrik Mead and Rui Pimenta): The A/porias of Skin: Secrets and Secretions of Self and Other – Alexandre Avdulov: Listening to the Pines: Japanese Tea Ceremony as a Form of Contemplative Ellipsis – Elisa Segnini: A Silent Language: Reflections on «Pure» and «Uncorrupted» Pantomime – Anton Jansen: When a Singer Must Be Silenced – Carol Merriam: Keeping Your Mouth Shut: How To Be a Good Mistress (Silenced Women in Latin Elegy) – Kathleen Garay: Speaking Saintly Silence in the Thirteenth Century: the Case of Elizabeth of Hungary – Index

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