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Symbolism - An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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Symbolism - An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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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 artistic phenomenon: a silence, blank, or
absence, introduced against the recipient's generic or experiential
expectations, but which nonetheless frequently encapsulates the
tenor of the work as a whole. Such omissions can be employed for
their affective potential, when emotions represented or evoked by
the text are deemed to be beyond words. They can be employed to
raise epistemological questions, as when an omission marks the
limits of what can be known. Ethical questions can also be
approached by means of omissions, as when a character's voice is
omitted, for instance. Finally, omission always carries within it
the potential to reflect on the media and genres on which it is
brought to bear: as its efficacy depends on the recipient's generic
expectations, omission is frequently characterized by a high degree
of meta-discursiveness. This volume investigates the various
strategies with which the phenomenon of omission is employed across
a range of textual forms and in different cultures to conclusively
argue for its status as a highly effective and near-universal form
of artistic signification.
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