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Utter Silence : Voicing the Unspeakable

Mills, Alice(Edited by)Smith, Jeremy(Edited by)
Part of the Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature series
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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.

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
0820451134 / 9780820451138
Hardback
08/03/2001
United States
272 pages
160 x 230 mm, 500 grams
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