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Voices and silence in the contemporary novel in English / edited by Vanessa Guignery.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.
- English fiction.
- Voice in literature--Congresses.
- Voice in literature.
- Silence in literature--Congresses.
- Silence in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels in English, covering the whole spectrum from effusiveness to muteness. Even if in the postmodern episteme language is deemed inadequate for speaking the unspeakable, contemporary authors still rely on voice as a mode of representation and a performative tool, and exploit silence not only as a sign of absence, block or withdrawal, but also as a token of presence and resistance. ...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Will self or the language of resistance
- pt. II. Graham Swift "in between the lines"
- pt. III. Reticence and logorrhoea in contemporary British and American literature
- pt. IV. New literatures : the poetics of silent voices.
- Notes:
- "A selection of papers presented at an international conference organized by the ERCLA research centre ... in December 2007 at the Sorbonne"--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41484-4
- 9786612414848
- 1-4438-1601-9
- OCLC:
- 827209212
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