Silence and Absence in Literature and Music

This volume focusses on the rarely discussed reverse side of traditional, ‘given’ objects of studies, namely absence rather than presence (of text) and silence rather than sound. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective and covers systematic as well as historical perspectives from the baroque age to the present.

Werner Wolf Professor and Chair of English and General Literature at the Univer?sity of Graz/Austria. Main areas of research: literary theory (aesthetic illusion, narratology, metafiction), functions of literature, 18th- to 21st-century English fiction, intermediality studies (including word and music relationships). Walter Bernhart Retired Professor of English Literature, University of Graz, president of International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), executive editor of Word and Music Studies (WMS) and Studies in Intermediality (SIM); his collected essays on literature and music were published as WMS 14 (2015).