Silence and Subject in Modern Literature
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.
| Autor: | Olsson, U. |
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| ISBN: | 9781349468645 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 215 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.01.2013 |
| Untertitel: | Spoken Violence |
| Schlagworte: | Beckett British and Irish Literature English literature Harold Pinter Jane Austen novel |
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.