The uses of silence : a twentieth-century preoccupation in the light of fictional examples, 1900-1950

A striking feature of twentieth-century Western cultural history was a preoccupation with silence. This thesis is a survey of the phenomenon across a broad range of literary and theoretical discourses actively engaged in the period in exploring and exploiting silence's expressive and philosophi...

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Main Author: Dauncey, Sarah
Published: University of Warwick 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398745