A rhetoric of silence and other selected writings /
Block de Behar, Lisa.
Block de Behar, Lisa.Rhétorique du silence.
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
c1995.
The first work is a rev. and considerably augmented version of the author's thesis (Ecole des hautes études, Paris) originally presented under the title: Une rhétorique du silence; another version in Spanish was published under the title: Una rétorica del silencio (1984); several of the selected writings were also published in Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A rhetoric of silence -- Borges and the invention of the name -- Finland-bound (on the way to Finland) -- The miracle of the roses and Borges' ultrarealism -- Between two languages : Jules Laforgue, a Uruguayan "figure" -- Anaphoric imagination in cinema : an approach to Fellini's Intervista -- Symbols as pass-words between spaces and species -- Narration under discussion : a question of angels, men, nouns, and pronouns -- The paradoxes of paradoxes.
Reader-response criticism.
Semiotics.