A rhetoric of silence and other selected writings
By: by Lisa Block de Behar.
Contributors: Block de Behar, Lisa.
Series: Approaches to semiotics ;; 122
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Reader-response criticism.; Semiotics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326) and index.
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.
Table of contents: title: A rhetoric of silence; title: Borges and the invention of the name; title: Finland-bound (on the way to Finland); title: The miracle of the roses and Borges' ultrarealism; title: Between two languages : Jules Laforgue, a Uruguayan "figure"; title: Anaphoric imagination in cinema : an approach to Fellini's Intervista; title: Symbols as pass-words between spaces and species; title: Narration under discussion : a question of angels, men, nouns, and pronouns; title: The paradoxes of paradoxes.