Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword from the Editors V
3. Contents VII
4. Special Focus: Omission
5. Introduction: Omission 1
6. “[B]y the Knowledge of the Great Saint Paraleipomenon—”: Si(g)ns of Omission in Laurence Sterne 13
7. When Words Stop: Omission in Songs 33
8. Omissions, Blanks, and Silences: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 126 49
9. Blackness as Disability: Compulsory Whiteness, Able-Bodiedness, and Masculinity in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy 67
10. Girls’ Aesthetics in Japan: Absence of Female Material Bodies 81
11. Meliur as a Figure of Omission in Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliur 101
12. Repression and Omission in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills 121
13. Don’t Mention the Guns: Omission by Substitution in Simon Armitage’s Killing Time 143
14. Omission and the Poetics of the EC Comics Twist: An Analysis of “Last Respects” (1951) and “Master Race” (1955) 159
15. The Omissions of Intermediality: Pop Music and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad 173
16. Aliens in the Void: Writing Beyond the Limits of Language in bpNichol’s The Martyrology (and (Luigi Serafini’s ((Code)x Seriphian(us)))) 193
17. The Mystery of the Missing Mystery: Midcentury Intellectuals on Modernism and Detective Fiction 211
18. General Section
19. Nature and I: The Human/Nature Relationship in Surrealist and Proto-Surrealist Poetry 231
20. The Symbolism of the String Quartet in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus 253
21. Contributors 273
22. Index 277