Symbolism : : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics / / ed. by Florian Klaeger, Klaus Stierstorfer, Marlena Tronicke.

Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill Throughout literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a recipient’s mind. The term ‘omission’ as used in the present study, then, demarcates a common artisti...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 22
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword from the Editors
  • Contents
  • Special Focus: Omission
  • Introduction: Omission
  • “[B]y the Knowledge of the Great Saint Paraleipomenon—”: Si(g)ns of Omission in Laurence Sterne
  • When Words Stop: Omission in Songs
  • Omissions, Blanks, and Silences: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 126
  • Blackness as Disability: Compulsory Whiteness, Able-Bodiedness, and Masculinity in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy
  • Girls’ Aesthetics in Japan: Absence of Female Material Bodies
  • Meliur as a Figure of Omission in Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliur
  • Repression and Omission in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
  • Don’t Mention the Guns: Omission by Substitution in Simon Armitage’s Killing Time
  • Omission and the Poetics of the EC Comics Twist: An Analysis of “Last Respects” (1951) and “Master Race” (1955)
  • The Omissions of Intermediality: Pop Music and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • Aliens in the Void: Writing Beyond the Limits of Language in bpNichol’s The Martyrology (and (Luigi Serafini’s ((Code)x Seriphian(us))))
  • The Mystery of the Missing Mystery: Midcentury Intellectuals on Modernism and Detective Fiction
  • General Section
  • Nature and I: The Human/Nature Relationship in Surrealist and Proto-Surrealist Poetry
  • The Symbolism of the String Quartet in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus
  • Contributors
  • Index