Research Catalog

Title

Utter silence : voicing the unspeakable / edited by Alice Mills and Jeremy Smith.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Mills, Alice, 1946-
• Smith, Jeremy, 1966-

Description

viii, 264 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Utter Silence explores the shifting boundaries of the unspeakable in twentieth-century Western culture. The contributors probe such taboos as the Holocaust, Marx' legacy, bulimia, and tuberculosis in the context of literature and the picture story book, TV and film, social knowledge, and political science. Charting the unspeakable across disciplines, the contributors give voice to its fear, horror, and joy."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 59

Uniform Title

Studies on themes and motifs in literature v. 59.

Subject

• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Taboo in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Must We Cease to Speak of Marx? The Utopian Imaginary as Taboo in the Age of Diminished Expectations / John Newton Hewitt -- The Visible and the Vanished: Taboos in Japan / Jeremy Smith -- A Long and Dishonorable Tradition / Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb -- Reading for the Plot, and Not Hearing the Story: Ecological Tragedy and Heroic Capitalism / Douglas Ezzy -- Silence, Taboo and Infectious Disease / Janet Brown -- Figures of Contagion: 1990s Screen Femmes Fatales / Cheryl Painter -- (Unspeakable) Body Parts: Patchwork Characters in Literature and Film / Aline Ferreira -- Bulimic Embodiment: Unspeakable and Out of Control / Sarah Squire -- "We're So Excited We Just Can't Contain Ourselves": Ren, Stimpy and the Abject / Terrie Waddell -- Enid Blyton: The Greatest Adventure of Her Life / Hugh Crago -- Art Spiegelman's Maus: Speaking the Holocaust / Spiros Tsaousis -- Ted Hughes' Stories for Children: Breaking the Silence about God / Alice Mills.

ISBN

0820451134 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00033096^

OCLC

44046783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library