Reverberations of Silence

Silenced Texts, Sub-Texts and Authors in Literature, Language and Translation
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4326-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten

Whether a conscious choice or constraint, silence has always been the result of oppression, censorship, trauma, and mental or physical handicap. Its provocative and mysterious nature has always motivated readers and critics towards interpretation. The present volume offers to read and interpret silence – unexpressed emotions, thoughts, hesitations and gestures – on mainly a textual and verbal level. How is the pervasive presence of silence explained in literature and linguistics? The collected scholarly essays in this volume offer a wide range of answers. The majority of the writings are literary critical in nature, focusing on major and less well-known literary texts from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. The authors approach the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Shelley, Dickinson, Wright, Auster, Tan and Ishiguro among others, as well as less well-known, silent or silenced authors and their texts with equal dedication. Other essays included in the volume either deal with the problem of translating gaps and hiatuses or focus on capturing the phenomenon of silence in speech, through analyzing ellipsis, emptiness and hesitations in spoken language. The controversial and manifold aspects of silence are captured and interpreted in this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pellérdi, Márta

Reuss, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Über Autor(innen)

Márta Pellérdi is Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. She is the author of Nabokov’s Palace: The American Novels.

Gabriella Reuss is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. She has published essays on the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays, Macready’s 1834 restoration of King Lear, and the Huns in The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine.