A typology of silence. (1st September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Griffiths, Linda Marshall
• Is Part Of: Journal of art writing by students. Volume 3:Number 1/2(2017)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2017-09-01
• Subjects: Arts -- Research -- Periodicals; Art in universities and colleges -- Periodicals; Arts -- Periodicals; Academic writing -- Periodicals; Graduate work -- Periodicals; 707
• DOI: 10.1386/jaws.3.1-2.37_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2055-2823

Abstract

Does silence exist and if so where and how? Is it an aural concern alone, or is it perceived and experienced? Can we recognize it and what is its function in plays? This developing typology of silence examines the materiality of silence, how playwrights frame it and what it communicates. Silences that unword language and create an underworld of space that lingers between noise and silence, words and silence. The continually renegotiated space of silence and words, silence and sound that challenge and dismantle meaning, whilst acknowledging the power and danger of a silence imposed. Do words break silence, or does silence devour words?