This book is a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten', held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.
The overwritten unwritten - nationalism and its doubles in post-colonial
theory, R.J.C. Young; the politics of the unwritten and the question of
value, I. Small; notes on atavism, D.W. Davis; epic, colonialism, empire - a
reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained", W. Lim; after
the (unwritten "post-colonial" in southeast Asia - what happens next? I.S.
Talib; relativity, uncertainty and imaginary time - the pseudoscientific
basis of postmodernist literary theory, C. Carleton; memories in black and
white - style and theme in Spielberg's "Schindler's List", T.R. White, L.
Stiller; the role of Bangsawan theatre in the evolution of modern Malay
drama, C.M. Chan; fetishism and Maugham's "The Letter", K.C. Ban; inducing
the hole -paratactic structure and the unwritten "Canterbury Tales", A.
Lindley; Virginia Woolf's "As if" in "To the Lighthouse" - the modernist
philosophy of meaning in absentia, R. Lumsden; unwritten fetishes and
theoretical strategies in Matthew Arnold's "Criticism", R.B.H. Goh; the
unwritten and the unwritten of Ruskin's "Art Criticism", A. Leng; unspeakable
fury - the silence of Klytaimnestra in "Agamemnon", to line 258, T. Dawson.
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