Silence in modern Irish literature

Author(s)

• McAteer, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Silence in modern Irish literature

edited by Michael McAteer

（DQR studies in literature, 63）

Brill Rodopi, c2017

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Silence in Modern Irish Literature is the first book to focus exclusively on the treatment of silence in modern Irish literature. It reveals the wide spectrum of meanings that silence carries in modern Irish literature: a mark of historical loss, a form of resistance to authority, a force of social oppression, a testimony to the unspeakable, an expression of desire, a style of contemplation. This volume addresses silence in psychological, ethical, topographical, spiritual and aesthetic terms in works by a range of major authors including Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen and Friel.

Table of Contents

Michael McAteer Introduction Part One - Psychologies of Silence Michael McAteer Silence as Disturbance in W. B. Yeats's "How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent" Emilie Morin Theatres and Pathologies of Silence: Symbolism and Irish Drama from Maeterlinck to Beckett Heather Ingman Silence, Language, and Power in Elizabeth Bowen's Work Aleksandra V. Jovanovic Narrative, Silence, and Psychosis in John Banville's The Book of Evidence Part Two - Ethics of Silence Willa Murphy Ritualized Silence and Secret Selves: The Seal of the Confessional in Nineteenth Century Ireland Mark McGahon Silence, Justice, and the Differend in Joyce's Ulysses Benjamin Keatinge Silence as Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Derek Mahon Alessandra Boller Women, Violence, and Silence: Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Part Three - Places of Silence Marta Pellerdi Silence and Displacement in Ivan Turgenev and George Moore Anne Fogarty "The gentle thread of the little voice:" Silence, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices Stephanie Schwerter Between Silence and Re-narration: Translating Signs of Belfast's Urban Space Part Four - Spirits of Silence Keith Hopper "Silent, so to speak:" Flann O'Brien and the Sense of an Ending Thierry Robin Variations on Silence in Dermot Healy's A Fool's Errand Virginie Roche-Tiengo The Voices of the Dead and the Silence of the Living in Brian Friel's Drama Notes on Contributors

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Details

• NCID: BC03017369
• ISBN:
  • 9789004342736
• LCCN: 2017002073
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 217 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR8722.S55
  • DC23 : 820.9/9415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Silence in literature
  • LCSH : English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00915545