The Dark Matter of Words: Abscence, Unknowing, and Emptiness in Literature

by Timothy Walsh and Professor Timothy Walsh Ph.D.

Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence. Textual gaps, narrative lacunae, and strategic vagueness, together with the uncertainties that such devices inevitably generate, have been essential elements of literature from Lao-Tzu to Lawrence, from Chaucer to Faulkner and beyond. Walsh finds that poststructural approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321726
• ISBN13: 9780809321728
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 9.3"