Writing towards absence with Herzog, Barthes and Calvino

• Main Author: Pang, Jeannette Ru Yan
• Other Authors: Neil Murphy
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140130
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Increasingly, we find works whose constructions consist of the negative. A turn away from the material to immaterial, form to formlessness, presence to absence, reflects uneasiness with language, certainty and meaning. We begin to find new vocabularies and modalities of absence that sets up a subjec...