The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the UnwrittenThis 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. |
Contents
Nationalism and its Doubles | 1 |
The Politics of the Unwritten and the Question of Value | 17 |
Notes on Atavism | 27 |
A Reading of Miltons | 45 |
Style and Theme | 79 |
The Role of Bangsawan Theatre in the Evolution | 87 |
Fetishism and Maughams The Letter | 97 |
Paratactic Structure and the Unwritten | 103 |
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The Silent Word - Textual Meaning And The Unwritten Ban Kah Choon,Robbie B H Goh,Robert J C Young Limited preview - 1998 |
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