Silence and Subject in Modern Literature [electronic resource] : Spoken Violence /
Olsson, U.author.
Olsson, Ulf,editor of compilation.
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.
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.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Performing arts.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Performing Arts.