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EPISODE · Jan 15, 2025 · 21 MIN

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

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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.”

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