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.
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Subject:
Literature and Cultural Studies›Criticism & Theory
Art History›Drama & Theatre Studies
Literature and Cultural Studies›English & Scottish
ISBN13: 9789004342736
Publication Date: April 2017
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Brill | Rodopi
Biographical note
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).
Readership
All interested in modern Irish literature, European Modernist literature (Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O’Brien), Modern Drama, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, and anyone concerned with psychoanalytical and philosophical approaches to literature.
Table of contents
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. Jovanović 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