Silence in Modern Irish Literature

Scholars analyze silence in Irish literature from the perspectives of psychology, ethics, places, and spirits. Their topics include theaters and pathologies of silence: symbolism and Irish drama from Maeterlinck to Beckett, ritualized silence and secret selves: the seal of the confessional in 19th-century Ireland, silence as testimony in Samuel Beckett and Derek Mahon, between silence and re-narration: translating signs of Belfast's urban space, and the voices of the dead and the silence of the living in Brian Friel's drama. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Michael McAteer, Ph.D. (1998), Queen’s University Belfast, is Associate Professor of English at Pazmany Peter University, Budapest. He has published extensively on Irish Literature, including Standish O’Grady, AE, Yeats (Irish Academic P, 2002); Yeats and European Drama (Cambridge UP, 2010).