Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension - Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence

This book examines Eastern philosophies of meditative silence in the context of Western rhetoric and discourse theory, arguing that silence is an authentic mode of knowing. Rather than an emptiness that is nihilistic, the void of meditative silence is, according to the author, a fullness in which meaning occurs. Kalamaras calls for a rethinking of the implications of such a concept of silence on contemporary theories of composition and the teaching of writing.

About the author

George Kalamaras is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. His articles on composition have appeared in Composition Studies and English Education. He has also published two collections of poetry, Heart Without End and Beneath the Breath, and is the recipient of a 1993 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For several years he has been a practitioner, in the Hindu tradition, of both Raja and Hatha Yoga.

Product details

• Authors: George Kalamaras
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.1994
• EAN: 9780791417584
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1758-4
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Suny Series, Literacy, Culture; Suny Series, Literacy, Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies