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- catalog abstract ""Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence." "Walsh argues that the use of absence in works of art - of silence, shadow, blankness, and void - is a principle means by which the inherent biological limitations of human consciousness and of human language are encoded in aesthetic constructs. Because of the limitations of our senses and because we often are more attuned to what lies beyond the threshold of perceptual limits, the lacunae in artistic works represent attempts to replicate the real and inescapable limits of human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10876350.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence." "Walsh argues that the use of absence in works of art - of silence, shadow, blankness, and void - is a principle means by which the inherent biological limitations of human consciousness and of human language are encoded in aesthetic constructs. Because of the limitations of our senses and because we often are more attuned to what lies beyond the threshold of perceptual limits, the lacunae in artistic works represent attempts to replicate the real and inescapable limits of human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-201) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. An Aesthetics of Absence. 1. Seeing What Isn't There. 2. Orchestras of Shadow -- pt. 2. The Roar on the Other Side of Silence. 3. The Wordless Blank and the Gift of Tongues. 4. The Prison-House of Language. 5. Language as Gesture. 6. Patrolling the Misty Frontier. 7. Malcolm Mooney's Land -- pt. 3. A Mechanics of Uncertainty. 8. "For the Snark Was a Boojum, You See" 9. Uncertainty vs. Indeterminacy. 10. Absence and "Structured Absence" 11. The Spectrum of Structured Absences. 12. Ciphers and Halos. 13. The Jamesian Cipher. 14. The Woolfian Halo. 15. Unnaming the World. Conclusion: The Dark Matter of Words and Worlds.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 206 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dark matter of words.".
- catalog identifier "0809321726 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dark matter of words.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog relation "Dark matter of words.".
- catalog subject "809/.9338 21".
- catalog subject "Literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Nothing (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nothing (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "PN56.N69 W35 1998".
- catalog subject "Sunyata.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. An Aesthetics of Absence. 1. Seeing What Isn't There. 2. Orchestras of Shadow -- pt. 2. The Roar on the Other Side of Silence. 3. The Wordless Blank and the Gift of Tongues. 4. The Prison-House of Language. 5. Language as Gesture. 6. Patrolling the Misty Frontier. 7. Malcolm Mooney's Land -- pt. 3. A Mechanics of Uncertainty. 8. "For the Snark Was a Boojum, You See" 9. Uncertainty vs. Indeterminacy. 10. Absence and "Structured Absence" 11. The Spectrum of Structured Absences. 12. Ciphers and Halos. 13. The Jamesian Cipher. 14. The Woolfian Halo. 15. Unnaming the World. Conclusion: The Dark Matter of Words and Worlds.".
- catalog title "The dark matter of words : absence, unknowing, and emptiness in literature / Timothy Walsh.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".