by Robert J C Young (Wadham College, Oxford), Ban Kah Choon (National University of Singapore), & Robbie B H Goh (National University of Singapore)

This book is 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.

• The Overwritten Unwritten: Nationalism and Its Doubles in Postcolonial 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) “Postcolonial” 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 Rhetorical Strategies in Matthew Arnold's Criticism (R B H Goh)
• The Unwritten and the Underwriting of Ruskin's Art Criticism (A Leng)
• Unspeakable Fury: The Silence of Klytaimnestra in Agamemnon, to Line 258 (T Dawson)