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Meaningful absence across arts and media : the significance of missing signifiers /

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 functi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wolf, Werner, 1955- (Editor ), Balestrini, Nassim Winnie (Editor ), Bernhart, Walter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
Colección:Studies in intermediality ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.