02849nam 2200637 a 450 991082728300332120240313131417.01-282-41484-497866124148481-4438-1601-9(CKB)3390000000009031(EBL)1114348(OCoLC)827209212(SSID)ssj0000444046(PQKBManifestationID)12111953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444046(PQKBWorkID)10462476(PQKB)11463250(MiAaPQ)EBC1114348(Au-PeEL)EBL1114348(CaPaEBR)ebr10655330(CaONFJC)MIL241484(OCoLC)1230506975(FINmELB)ELB144110(EXLCZ)99339000000000903120091215d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVoices and silence in the contemporary novel in English /edited by Vanessa Guignery1st ed.Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.20091 online resource (302 p.)"A selection of papers presented at an international conference organized by the ERCLA research centre ... in December 2007 at the Sorbonne"--Acknowledgements.1-4438-1247-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 authors still rely on voice as a mode of representation and a performative tool, and exploit silence not only as a sign of absence, block or withdrawal, but also as a token of presence and resistance. ...English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCongressesVoice in literatureCongressesSilence in literatureCongressesEnglish fictionHistory and criticismVoice in literatureSilence in literature823.91409353Guignery Vanessa1102789Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne.Centre de recherches ERCLA.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827283003321Voices and silence in the contemporary novel in English4064806UNINA