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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Olsson, U
• Olsson, Ulf,

Titel

Silence and Subject in Modern Literature : Spoken Violence [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• 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.
• English