The Silent Word - Textual Meaning and the Unwritten

This work offers a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: the Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.