Presences and Absences ' Transdisciplinary Essays.

This volume discusses the question of presence and/or absence from a transdisciplinary perspective, and intends to provide insights into how a wide range of disciplines addresses this issue which has been at the centre of philosophical, theoretical and critical debates in the past decades. As the es...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labudova, Katarína
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=649578
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION; PRESENCE AND ABSENCE IN LANGUAGEAND LINGUISTICS; THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF PRAGMATICMARKERS IN NATURALLY-OCCURRING, SCRIPTED AND NON-NATIVE DISCOURSE; WHAT GETS HIGHLIGHTEDAND HIDDEN IN A GENRE CHAIN; THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCEOF THE STOLEN GENERATIONS; WORDS THAT MAKE WHOLE; THE REFRESHING PRESENCE OF GODIN THE PERSONAL LYRICSOF ANNE BRADSTREET; "SUCH ABSENCES!"; BLANK SPACE; SPECTRAL PRESENCESIN TWO TURN-OF-THE-CENTURYGHOST STORIES; BEING A SUBJECT IS A HORRIBLE THING; THE PROBLEM THAT HASA MASCULINE NAME; "IRONING-BECAUSE-ITS-TUESDAY."
  • INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE OPENING SCENESOF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S THE YEARSMYTH AND RE-PRESENTATION; WATERLESS FLOOD AND MYTHLESS MYTH; THE ARABESQUES OF PRESENCEAND ABSENCE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.