Voices and silence in the contemporary novel in English / editor, Vanessa Guignery.

Voices and silence in the contemporary novel in English /

This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels in English, covering the whole spectrum from effusiveness to muteness. Even if in the postmodern episteme language is deemed inadequate for speaking the unspeakable, contemporary auth...

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Corporate Author: Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. Centre de recherches ERCLA
Other Authors: Guignery, Vanessa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Subjects:
Voice in literature.
Silence in literature.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Will self or the language of resistance
  • pt. II. Graham Swift "in between the lines"
  • pt. III. Reticence and logorrhoea in contemporary British and American literature
  • pt. IV. New literatures : the poetics of silent voices.

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