Strategies of Silence

ISBN-13: 9780367706319 / Miękka / 2023 / 196 str.

Opis

This unique book takes silence as its central concept and questions the range of meanings and values which inform the idea as it impinges on the creative process and its content and contexts.

Spis treści

Introduction: On Silence in Language and Writing Moy McCrory and Simon Heywood  PART 1: Silence, Solitude, and Imagination  1. Daydreams and Solitude: Working the silent space Luke M. Thompson  PART 2: History and Traditions  2. Restored to his Kingdom: Reading the silences of medieval narrative Simon Heywood  3. Silver Threads of Fear: Restoring the agency of female protagonists in Jewish women's storytelling traditions Simon Heywood  4. The Roaring Ghosts: Depictions of female silence and its oppositions Moy McCrory  5. Re-Witching Writing: Emerging out of silence Maude Casey  PART 3: The Poetry of Silence  6. Strange Affiliation Matthew Clegg  7. A Poor Poetry: Silence and stillness in Thomas A. Clark's Moschatel poems
Aled Ganobscik-Williams  8. Making Worlds out of Silence: A text-world analysis of the unspoken in Not an Ending by Andrew Waterhouse Nigel McLoughlin  9. Firstly, into Silence: Openings into Poetry Adrian Buckner  PART 4: Silence as Structure: Prose, Script, and the Unsaid  10. Silence and the Short Story Form Moy McCrory  11. Graphic Novels as Works of Translation: working as an illustrator Bob Moulder  12. Silence and Filmic Prose Gregory Heath  13. Q.A.Q. Matthew Cheeseman  PART 5: The Waiting Game  14. The Silence of Peer Review Ailsa Cox  Appendix 1: Text World Architecture of ‘Not an Ending’

O autorze

Moy McCrory is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Derby, UK.

Simon Heywood is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Derby, UK.