Silence can be overtly expressed, or it can be subtle, speaking simply by not being spoken. These seventeen essays examine a range of ways in which silence can be expressed, be it through codes
or through overt rhetorical actions. The uses of silence examined here include the muted tones in Kierkegaard’s fear and trembling, political silencing (such as cartographic silences in Brian
Friels’s translations and Becket’s Cold War texts) silencing one’s own voice (self-censorship, how to foster silence), fascination with the void (the image of the falling man), body
language(the secret sensation of self and other, the Japanese tea ceremony as a form of contemplative ellipses), pure and uncorrupted pantomime (classical and medieval science), silenced women
in Latin elegy, and speaking in ＂saintly silence.＂ Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
