Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence

by Ulf Olsson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137350989
• ISBN13: 9781137350985
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"