The silent word textual meaning and the unwritten ; [selection of papers presented at an International Conference on "Meaning as Production: the Role of the "Unwritten", held in Singapore in 1995]

The overwritten unwritten - nationalism and its doubles in post-colonial theory, R.J.C. Young; the politics of the unwritten and the question of value, I. Small; notes on atavism, D.W. Davis; epic, colonialism, empire - a reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained", W. Lim; after the (unwritten "post-colonial" in southeast Asia - what happens next? I.S. Talib; relativity, uncertainty and imaginary time - the pseudoscientific basis of postmodernist literary theory, C. Carleton; memories in black and white - style and theme in Spielberg's "Schindler's List", T.R. White, L. Stiller; the role of Bangsawan theatre in the evolution of modern Malay drama, C.M. Chan; fetishism and Maugham's "The Letter", K.C. Ban; inducing the hole -paratactic structure and the unwritten "Canterbury Tales", A. Lindley; Virginia Woolf's "As if" in "To the Lighthouse" - the modernist philosophy of meaning in absentia, R. Lumsden; unwritten fetishes and theoretical strategies in Matthew Arnold's "Criticism", R.B.H. Goh; the unwritten and the unwritten of Ruskin's "Art Criticism", A. Leng; unspeakable fury - the silence of Klytaimnestra in "Agamemnon", to line 258, T. Dawson.