Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Silence that Speaks through Codes -- 1.Rhetorical Uses of Silence and Spaces Keith Grant-Davie -- 2.Sounding Silence, Composing Absence on Screen and Stage: Gus Van Sant's Gerry and Samuel Beckett's Not I Ariel Harrod -- 3.The Visiting Muse: Antiquity and the Suggestive Power of Silence in the Chamber Frescoed by Correggio Maria Cristina Chiusa -- 4.Muted Epigraphs in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Lori Yamato -- Part II. Political and Cultural Silencing -- 5.Cartographic Silences in Brian Friel's Translations Matthew Dwight Moore -- 6.Power of the Void: Fascism and Silence in the Poetry of Bertolt Brecht and Paul Celan Paul Peters -- 7."To have him all in black": The "Absence" of Havel in Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe: A Late Cold War Text Sheelagh Russell-Brown -- Part III. Silencing One's Own Voice -- 8.When the Silencer is also the Silenced: The Mechanisms of Self-censorship Magda Stroińska and Vikki Cecchetto -- 9.Milutin Gubash's Which Way to the Bastille? Or How to Foster Silence Catherine Parayre -- Part IV. Fascination with the Void -- 10.The Image of the Falling Man Revisited Sandra Singer -- 11.Reflections on the Violence of Art R. Bruce Elder -- Part V. Body Language -- 12.The A/porias of Skin: Secrets and Secretions of Self and Other Mark Cauchi (with Wrik Mead and Rui Pimenta) -- 13.Listening to the Pines: Japanese Tea Ceremonyas a Form of Contemplative Ellipsis Alexander Avdulov -- 14.A Silent Language: Reflections on 'Pure'and 'Uncorrupted' Pantomime Elena Segnini -- Part VI. Classical and Medieval Silence: Poets, Saints, Mistresses -- 15.When Must a Singer Be Silenced? Anton Jansen -- 16 Keeping Your Mouth Shut: How to be a Good Mistress (Silenced Women in Latin Elegy) Carol Merriam.

17.Speaking Saintly Silence in the Thirteenth Century:The Case of Elizabeth of Hungary Kathleen Garay -- Index.