Silence and Sound in the Sentences of Gerald Murnane’s <i>A Million Windows</i>

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  • Anthony Uhlmann University of Western Sydney

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Gerald Murnane

Abstract

This article develops a reading of Gerald Murnane's 2014 novel A Million Windows, focusing on the manner in which the novel interrogates the nature of meaning making in fiction. It looks at the paired ideas of sound and silence: the former producing sense through sentences proper to the sense they need to convey; the latter impressing itself as what needs to be understood.

Author Biography

Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney

Anthony Uhlmann is the Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney

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2015-06-08

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015): Critical Soundings

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