Author Ward (formerly, English, Rice U.) explores the use and effects of silence in modern American realistic art and literature. The book's title is misleading. In addition to analyzing the
techniques and subjects of author James Agee, photographer Walker Evans, and painter Edward Hopper, the works of writers Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson--and to a lesser degree--Edgar
Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, and Henry Adams also are addressed. In these artists' work, the author sees silence used in various ways to bring out the reality, the true nature of a
subject, as opposed to a relatively superficial technique of simple description. This book was originally published in 1985 by Louisiana State Press. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland,
OR (booknews.com)
