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Tag: omission

The Presence of the Absence of Absences

March 31, 2016 Martin Gardiner

Although it’s possible to create a swathe of specially crafted ‘academic drivel’ on the concept of the Absence of Absences that certainly doesn’t preclude the concept from serious study. In fact there’s quite a body of academic work which addresses this very subject – see for example the work of George Botterill (University of Sheffield, UK) […]

Arts and Scienceabsence, hole, missing, nothing, omission

Ellipsis in English Literature

November 20, 2015 Martin Gardiner

Dr. Anne Toner, of the Faculty of English at Trinity College Cambridge, UK, studies varieties of incompleteness in literary works. She has recently published a book which focusses on a particular incompleteness signifier: Ellipsis in English Literature : Signs of Omission. The publisher notes : “Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of […]

Arts and Sciencegap, nothing, omission, punctuation, typography
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