Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence

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Springer, 10 oct 2013 - 215 páginas
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.
 

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Cordelias Silence or Spoken Violence
1
Austens Mansfield Park
35
Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter Musils Tonka
58
Melvilles Bartleby Meets Gombrowiczs Ivona
82
Strindberg Camus Beckett
103
Rankin Harris Pinter Duras
125
Handkes Kaspar
149
The Silence of the Sirens
163
Notes
175
Bibliography
202
Index
212
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Ulf Olsson is Professor of Comparative Literature, teaches at Stockholm University, Sweden and has also taught at University of California, Berkeley, USA and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has published books on Strindberg, and on contemporary Swedish literature, as well as on improvised music. Olsson also works as a literary critic.

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