Silence in modern Irish literature / edited by Michael McAteer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAteer, Michael, 1968- editor.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 63.

DQR studies in literature ; volume 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence in literature.

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 217 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

Summary:

Silence in Modern Irish Literature is the first book to focus exclusively on the treatment of silence in modern Irish literature. It reveals the wide spectrum of meanings that silence carries in modern Irish literature: a mark of historical loss, a form of resistance to authority, a force of social oppression, a testimony to the unspeakable, an expression of desire, a style of contemplation. This volume addresses silence in psychological, ethical, topographical, spiritual and aesthetic terms in works by a range of major authors including Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen and Friel. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael McAteer

Psychologies of silence. Silence as disturbance in W.B. Yeats's "How Ferencz Renyi kept silent" / Michael McAteer

Theatres and pathologies of silence : symbolism and Irish drama from Maeterlinck to Beckett / Emilie Morin

Silence, language, and power in Elizabeth Bowen's work / Heather Ingman

Narrative, silence, and psychosis in John Banville's The book of evidence / Aleksandra V. Jovanovic

Ethics of silence. Ritualized silence and secret selves : the seal of the confessional in nineteenth century Ireland / Willa Murphy

Silence, justice, and the differend in Joyce's Ulysses / Mark McGahon

Silence as testimony in Samuel Beckett and Derek Mahon / Benjamin Keatinge

Women, violence, and silence : Roddy Doyle's The woman who walked into doors / Alessandra Boller

Places of silence. Silence and displacement in Ivan Turgenev and George Moore / Marta Pellerdi

"The gentle thread of the little voice" : silence, sexuality, and subjectivity in Kate O'Brien's The land of spices / Anne Fogarty

Between silence and re-narration : translating signs of Belfast's urban space / Stephanie Schwerter

Spirits of silence. "Silent, so to speak" : Flann O'Brien and the sense of an ending / Keith Hopper

Variations on silence in Dermot Healy's A fool's errand / Thierry Robin

The voices of the eead and the silence of the living in Brian Friel's drama / Virginie Roche-Tiengo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Silence in modern Irish literature.

ISBN:

9789004342736

9004342737

OCLC:

984149313