Silence and Subject in Modern Literature : Spoken Violence / by U. Olsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsson, U., Author.

Contributor:

Olsson, Ulf, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

European literature.

Performing arts.

Theater.

Fiction Literature.

Literary Theory.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Literary Theory.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range of texts ranging from the modern crime novel, via classics, to avant-garde plays.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Cordelia's Silence, Spoken Violence

1. The Exemplary Becomes Problematic, or Gendered Silence: Jane Austen

2. The Secrets of Silence: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Musil's Tonka

3. Refusal, or The Mute Provocateurs: Bartleby Meets Yvonne

4. The Other of Monologue: Strindberg, Camus, Beckett

5. Interrogation, or Forced to Silence: Rankin, Harris, Pinter, Duras

6. Literature as Coerced Speech: Peter Handke's Kaspar

7. Epilogue: The Silence of the Sirens

8. Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349468645

1349468649

9781137350992

1137350997

OCLC:

861225884