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Silence and Subject in Modern Literature - Spoken Violence (Hardcover)
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Silence and Subject in Modern Literature - Spoken Violence (Hardcover)
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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 remain silent, even when the cost of speech
is torture and pain.
Silence and Subject in Modern Literature uses a wide variety of
texts from forms such as the modern crime novel, via popular
classics from authors such as Jane Austen, to avant-garde plays by
Samuel Beckett and Handke, to study literary representations of the
power relations in which we are forced to speak. Informed by
critical theory by Foucault and Bakhtin among others, and touching
on fields as diverse as rhetoric, feminism, and the concept of
literature, Silence and Subject in Modern Literature engages
closely with a central issue in modern life: spoken violence.
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