Silence and subject in modern literature : spoken violence /

"In Peter Handke's play Kaspar, a young man is forced to learn to speak: a process that is a form of physical torture to him. In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, the young heroine desires to keep as silent as possible, since speech directed at her causes such pain. We are not allowed to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Olsson, Ulf (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Silence in literature. Speech in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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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.