Silence and Subject in Modern Literature
Title | Silence and Subject in Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | U. Olsson |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1137350997 |
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.
Silence and Subject in Modern Literature
Title | Silence and Subject in Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | U. Olsson |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1137350997 |
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.
Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Title | Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gould |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2018-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319934791 |
This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. It suggests that silence is best understood according to two categories: apophasis and reticence. Apophasis is associated with theology, and relates to a silence of ineffability and transcendence; reticence is associated with phenomenology, and relates to a silence of listenership and speechlessness. In a series of diverse though interrelated readings, the study examines figures of broken silence and silent voice in the prose of Samuel Beckett, the notion of shared silence in Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, and ways in which the poetry of Wallace Stevens mounts lyrical negotiations with forms of unsayability and speechlessness.
Silence in Modern Irish Literature
Title | Silence in Modern Irish Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004342745 |
Silence in Modern Irish Writing examines the meanings and forms of silence in Irish poetry, fiction and drama in modern times. These are discussed in psychological, ethical, topographical, spiritual and aesthetic terms.
The Reading of Silence
Title | The Reading of Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Ondek Laurence |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804721790 |
This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. Using a wide range of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Kristeva and Derrida, Laurence demonstrates convincingly that Woolf was the first modern woman novelist to practice silence in her writing and that, in so doing, she created a new language of the mind and changed the metaphor of silence from one of absence or oppression to one of presence and strength. It suggests new directions for Woolf criticism.
Silence
Title | Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2005-12-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782387498 |
This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is implicated in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts.
The Silence of Animals
Title | The Silence of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | John Gray |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0374229171 |
"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--