"The little twist of sound could have the whole of her:" silence, repetition, and musicality in Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" and Gertrude Stein's "The Mother of Us All"

This thesis tracks an alternative trajectory for thinking about the way in which modernist texts incorporate silence as an aesthetic and a theme, one that departs from those currently favoured by contemporary modernist criticism. Particularly, I wish to move away from the prevailing approach to Virg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brickey, Alyson
Other Authors: Libin, Mark (English, Film and Theatre)
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4100