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SLU professor’s award-winning book explores the opportunity and power of blank spaces

SLU professor’s award-winning book explores the opportunity and power of blank spaces

St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio

January 15, 202521m 45s

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While blank spaces, silences and gaps may appear empty, is true emptiness possible? St. Louis University Professor Jonathan Sawday explores that question — and addresses the opportunities, pitfalls and stories behind such gaps — in his award-winning book, “Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence.”