Silence and Subject in Modern Literature

1. Introduction: Cordelia’s Silence, or Spoken Violence
Ulf Olsson

2. The Exemplary Becomes Problematic, or Gendered Silence: Austen’s Mansfield Park
Ulf Olsson

3. The Secrets of Silence: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Musil’s ‘Tonka’
Ulf Olsson

4. Refusal, or The Mute Provocateurs: Melville’s Bartleby Meets Gombrowicz’s Ivona
Ulf Olsson

5. The Other of Monologue: Strindberg, Camus, Beckett
Ulf Olsson

6. Interrogation, or Forced to Silence: Rankin, Harris, Pinter, Duras
Ulf Olsson

7. Literature as Coerced Speech: Handke’s Kaspar
Ulf Olsson

8. Epilogue: The Silence of the Sirens
Ulf Olsson

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Performing Arts