Silence in modern Irish 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 s...

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Other Authors: McAteer, Michael 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill Rodopi [2017]
Series:DQR Studies in Literature Volume 63
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XI, 217 Seiten
ISBN:9789004342736

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