Titlebook: Silence and Subject in Modern Literature; Spoken Violence Ulf Olsson Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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,Refusal, or The Mute Provocateurs: Melville’s , Meets Gombrowicz’s ,silent.. Silence is sometimes a breaking of rules — rules of decorum, but sometimes also of the circulation of words as such. In those cases, silence works as the ultimate provocation, forcing the other to speak and even to command speech. ‘Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resist

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The Other of Monologue: Strindberg, Camus, Beckett,bstract, but as practised. The voluntary speech of a singular individual always has an address — and perhaps that addressee is the agent of the force that is necessary for the production of speech? Monologue is dialogue — while what sometimes seems like a dialogue, in truth, is a monologue reducing

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,Literature as Coerced Speech: Handke’s ,lay was loosely based on the well-known story of how a young man, who came to be called Kaspar Hauser, appeared in a German city in 1828, apparently not able to speak much more than a single sentence, ‘A söcbener Reiter möcbt 1 wärn, wie mei Voter aner gween is’ — ‘1 want to become a horseman like m

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Interrogation, or Forced to Silence: Rankin, Harris, Pinter, Duras,nfession, but also, and paradoxically, its opposite, silence, the refusal to confess — and to speak. Or, as Elaine Scarry writes: ‘Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate recession to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned,’

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,Introduction: Cordelia’s Silence, or Spoken Violence,Goneril, at the same time as she raises the bid: ‘I am made of that self mettle as my sister, And prize me at her worth. In my true heart I find she names my very deed of love: Only she comes too short.’ While the elder sisters are making their declarations, we hear Cordelia speaking to herself: ‘What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent,’