Smart environments are environments of miscommunication oriented toward
muteness. They are, primarily, gestural, haptic, intuitive, immediate and non-textual.
There is a sense of stillness in many of these writings that one does not find in the expression of other major subjects for poetry, such as love or the ending of love, and the poems collected in Time of Grief seem to each display a sort of cognitive
muteness. In Eugenio de Andrade's "Brief September Elegy," he writes of someone he has lost, whom he is afraid to call out to, indeed "afraid of breaking the thread / with which you weave unremembered days." He asks, "With what words / or kisses or tears / can one awake the dead without harming them ...?" Perhaps this is another way of saying that we must meet the depths of experience with a sense of courage and dignity toward the memory of those we have lost.
From the monstrosity of the top commanders to the
muteness of the many who must have seen, heard, known or suspected - the facts must be faced and learned from.
Hardin, "Middleton, Plautus, and the Ethics of Comedy" (296-311); Meredith Molly Hand, "More lies than true tales': Scepticism in Middleton's Mock-Almanacs" (312-29); Heidi Brayman Hackel, "Staging
Muteness in Middleton" (330-45); Stephen Guy-Bray, "Middleton's Language Machine" (346-59); David Glimp, "Middleton and the Theatre of Emergency" (360-75); Indira Ghose, "Middleton and the Culture of Courtesy" (376-89); Gabriel Gbadamosi, "Playwright to Playwright: The Changeling" (390-403); Barbara Fuchs, "Middleton and Spain" (404-17); Ewan Fernie, "Wisdom in Reverse" (418-36); Lars Engle, "Middleton and Mimetic Desire" (437-51); Celia R.
Back in college, Yuknavitch and her classmates were assigned Sigmund Freud's 1905 case study of "Dora," a bisexual 18-year-old who spent years fending off sexual advances by a family friend--and manifested her trauma through spates of
muteness and coughing fits.
During these sessions, the child's expressions gradually increased in both content and creativity, reducing their
muteness. Kato (2006) compared the effects of block creations using scores gained on the Profile of Mood States (POMS; McNair, Lorr, & Droppelman, 1981) before and after the creation.
liberated from its (allegedly self-imposed)
muteness by the narrator,
Even when voiced--the exception--his speech was mute, and the
muteness and muttering of the broadly framed, black-haired painter could make his students uncomfortable.
Here, the elements of a political discourse (morality, community, approval (law), and competence) are examined simultaneously in order to show how the discourse elements in narratives on revolution are configured, and how certain elements express saliency and
muteness. The discourse of the revolution is investigated through two notions: the emergence of the Russian state, and the socio-economic transformation that appears to be activated by the responders.