Silence in modern Irish literature / / edited by Michael McAteer.

• Superior document: DQR Studies in Literature, Volume 63
• TeilnehmendeR: McAteer, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature ; Volume 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Introduction /; Psychologies of Silence --; Silence as Disturbance in W.B. Yeats’s “How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent” /; Theatres and Pathologies of Silence: Symbolism and Irish Drama from Maeterlinck to Beckett /; Silence, Language, and Power in Elizabeth Bowen’s Work /; Narrative, Silence, and Psychosis in John Banville’s The Book of Evidence /; Ethics of Silence --; Ritualized Silence and Secret Selves: The Seal of the Confessional in Nineteenth Century Ireland /; Silence, Justice, and the Différend in Joyce’s Ulysses /; Silence as Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Derek Mahon /; Women, Violence, and Silence: Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors /; Places of Silence --; Silence and Displacement in Ivan Turgenev and George Moore /; “The gentle thread of the little voice:” Silence, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Kate O’Brien’sThe Land of Spices /; Between Silence and Re-narration: Translating Signs of Belfast’s Urban Space /; Spirits of Silence --; “Silent, so to speak:” Flann O’Brien and the Sense of an Ending /; Variations on Silence in Dermot Healy’s A Fool’s Errand /; The Voices of the Dead and the Silence of the Living in Brian Friel’s Drama /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004342745
• ISSN: 0921-2507
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael McAteer.

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.