A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings

Lisa Block de Behar

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9783110144253
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110813555
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The silence intended: some exclusions necessary for its definition
• 1. The foreseen silence
• 2. Against triviality
• 3. The silent protest
• 4. The silence of the others
• 5. The representation of silence
• 6. The present silence
• 7. The final silence
• Chapter 2 Rhetoric: state of the art
• Chapter 3 Praise of reading
• Chapter 4 Silence and its double: a history of literature or a history ofreading?
• 1. Definitions: the risk of the limits
• 2. Terms in force
• Chapter 5 Lector e-lector
• 1. The ups and downs of reading
• 2. The relevance of some antecedents: Pierre Menard, reader of the Quixote
• Chapter 6 Problems of “repeated discourse”
• 1. Other Palimpsests. The repetitive (dis)solution
• 2. Tradition and rupture: a “leitmotiv”
• 3. Technique as repetition
• 4. The aesthetics of imitation
• 5. Lexicalization of phrases
• 6. Repetition as reflection: the possible encounter between Echo and Narcissus
• Chapter 7 The (di)vision of man and the crisis of coherence
• 1. Fragile vessels
• 2. Reading of text: literature and fragments
• Chapter 8 Familiarity and strangeness: repetition-fragmentation. The narrative of Felisberto Hernández
• Chapter 9 The era of the reader
• Chapter 10 Critical avidity
• Chapter 11 «Le style c’est, au moins, deux hommes»
• Chapter 12 Every reader reads
• Chapter 13 A read reader
• Chapter 14 The rights of the reader
• Chapter 15 Solidity and precariousness of the text
• Chapter 16 Reading and interdiction; between word and word, silence
• Chapter 17 Writing and interdiction
• Chapter 18 The reticence of the text
• Selected writings
• Borges and the invention of the name
• Finland-bound (on the way to Finland). (Between rhetorical and geometrical figures): The semiotic spectre in La muerte y la brújula by Jorge Luis Borges
• The miracle of the roses and Borges’ ultrarealism
• Between two languages: Jules Laforgue, a Uruguayan “figure”. Biographical and poetical notes for the study of a rhetorical figure
• 1. The background of this work
• 2. A retrospective at the beginning
• 3. The temptation of the name
• 4. Langus-lettres compared
• 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
• 1. Imitations and limitations
• 2. «Copier, c’est ne rien faire»
• 3. «Lire beacoup, lire encore, lire toujours»
• 4. «Devenir immortel et puis mourir»
• 5. From one diegesis to another
• 6. Loss of prestige
• 7. Theory of fiction
• 8. «Soeurs siamoises, séparées par la tête: la pensée et la poésie»
• 9. Repetition with a difference
• 10. Angels, hybrids, androgynous
• The paradoxes of paradoxes
• Notes
• References
• Subject index