Silence in Modern Irish Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34273-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McAteer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Différend 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

Márta Pellérdi
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

Über Autor(innen)

Michael McAteer, Ph.D. (1998), Queen’s University Belfast, is Associate Professor of English at Pázmány Péter University, Budapest. He has published extensively on Irish Literature, including Standish O’Grady, AE, Yeats (Irish Academic P, 2002); Yeats and European Drama (Cambridge UP, 2010).