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SILENCE AND SUBJECT IN MODERN LITERATURE IBD

AIAA
10 / 2013
9781137350985
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Sinopsis

In Peter HandkeâÇÖs play Kaspar, a young man is forced to learn to speak: a process that is a form of physical torture to him. In Jane AustenâÇÖs 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. á 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.áInformed by critical theory by Foucault and Bakhtin among others, and touching on fields asádiverse as rhetoric, feminism, and the concept of literature,áSilence and Subject in Modern Literature engages closelyáwith a central issue in modern life: spoken violence.

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