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Coda: Eloquent Silence

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In this short, concluding section to the book, Gould elliptically considers the critical and theoretical association between silence and eloquence as examples of the alienation of language.

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Gould, T. (2018). Coda: Eloquent Silence. In: Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93479-2_6

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