The Power of Silence: Exploration of Muteness in Jerzy Kosinski's «The Painted Bird» and Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest»
Author:   Hasine Şen
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
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9783631745939


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   20 July 2018
Format:   Hardback
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The Power of Silence: Exploration of Muteness in Jerzy Kosinski's «The Painted Bird» and Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest»


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This book discusses silence as a state born either by trauma-inflicted muteness or deliberate abstinence from speech focusing on the mute(d) characters, the nonverbal forms of communication and textual ellipses in Jerzy Kosinski’s «The Painted Bird» and Ken Kesey’s «One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest». Using a methodological approach based on the close reading of the novels, the work proposes that Kosinski and Kesey disrupt the conventional equation of power with speech and present silence as a valiant mode of resistance too. It also explores how the trope of muteness functions as an implicit strategy for the investigation of language itself, its power to create meaning, to control and eventually— silence.

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Author:   Hasine Şen
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.225kg
ISBN:  

9783631745939


ISBN 10:   3631745931
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   20 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Silence and speech/trauma/disability - Silence as a symptom of the Differend and the language of Homo Sacer - The silence of the victim and the speech of the victimizer in Kosinski's The Painted Bird - Speech, sound and silence in Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Textual ellipses

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