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urn:uuid:2adf5b44-a6ae-4877-9963-3286ed9428f7 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2adf5b44-a6ae-4877-9963-3286ed9428f7 15 9781685711658 06 10.53288/0478.1.00 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 The Presence of Absence Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing 1 A01 21 0000-0001-8220-3941 Katina L. Rogers First edition. 01 eng 00 96 03 B2 Cultural Studies+Critical Theory 93 DSA 10 LIT020000 93 DSM 10 LIT006000 B2 Literary Studies 93 DSC 01 06 03 00 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of relationships, identity, and grief. Through gorgeously slow and close readings, Rogers explores absence and excess, fragmentation and translation, and — above all — the push and pull between presence and absence, with absence carrying as much significance as presence (and sometimes more).The Presence of Absence crosses languages and disciplines, working in French and English across poetry, photography, history, and literary theory. Through investigations of Nox by Anne Carson, Quelque chose noir by Jacques Roubaud, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, and Le livre des questions by Edmond Jabès, Rogers explores various truths — about loss but also about knowledge, beauty, even higher education — that are difficult to articulate and yet resonate deeply with lived experience. 20 00 Open Access Dead Letter Office 01 punctum books Earth, Milky Way 04 01 20240619 2024 06 15 9781685711641 06 15 9781685711658 09 punctum books 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0478.1.00.pdf 99 01 09 punctum books 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-presence-of-absence-meditations-on-the-unsayable-in-writing/ 99 01