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"Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question-Who speaks?-by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children's literature in the question of voice by considering disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. Children's literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre: it is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children's literature, this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child's journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child's verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times, silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries, speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently, we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases, the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much, too little, or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they attempt to hold adults to account-inside and outside the text. Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature addresses this underconceptualized subject in what will be an important text for scholars of children's literature, childhood studies, English, disability studies, gender studies, race studies, ecopedagogy, and education"-- Provided by publisher.

Silence in literature. --- Speech in literature.

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Greek literature --- Greek language --- Oral communication --- Speech in literature. --- Voice in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Spoken Greek.

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The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional modes of speech, prayer, address and dialogue. He looks at speech and dramatic form in the plays to reveal new insights concerning spatial and temporal orientation, the expression of emotions, and the relationships between characters on stage, between actor and audience, and between the dramatic world and the ordinary world outside it. His analysis offers new ways of understanding the relationship of vernacular drama to its liturgical antecedents, and new means of distinguishing stylistically between the cycles and between the groups of plays they comprise.

Bible plays, English --- Christian drama, English (Middle) --- English drama --- Literary form --- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Speech in literature --- 820-2 "14" --- History and criticism --- History --- Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"14" --- Biblia --- Bible --- In literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Speech in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism.

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This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'. Dialogue in Flaubert does not attempt to represent an individual style but to circumscribe a larger phenomenon of language. Speech defines man both in the sense that it describes him as a set of human characteristics, and inscribes him within a system of social values. The author explores the development of Flaubert's use of dialogue in Madame Bovary, L'Education Sentimentale (both versions), and Bouvard et Pécuchet.

Flaubert, Gustave --- Speech in literature --- Dialogue --- French language --- Discourse analysis --- Flaubert, Gustave, --- Technique --- -Speech in literature --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Dialog --- Drama --- -Technique --- Technique. --- Flaubert, Gustaw, --- Flober, Gi︠u︡stav, --- Fu-lou-pai, --- Fu, Lou-pai, --- Fu-lou-pai, Chü-ssu-tʻa fu, --- Fuloubai, --- Phlōmper, Gkystav, --- Phlōmper, Goustauos, --- Флобер, Гюстав, --- פלאבער, ג. --- פלאבער, גוסטאוו, --- פלובר, גוסטאב --- 福樓拜, --- Flūbir, Gūstāv, --- Flūbir, Gūstāw, --- فلوبر، گوستاو --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- French language - Discourse analysis --- Flaubert, Gustave, - 1821-1880 - Technique --- Speech in literature. --- Dialogue. --- Discourse analysis. --- Flaubert, Gustave, - 1821-1880

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"What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting new research on colloquial language in a wide range of Latin authors. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the relevant area, and the material presented includes new editions of several texts. The Introduction presents the first account in English of developments in the study of colloquial Latin over the last century, and throughout the book findings are presented in clear, lucid, and jargon-free language, making a major scholarly debate accessible to a broad range of students and non-specialists"--Provided by publisher.

Classical Latin literature --- Stilistics --- Classical Latin language --- Pragmatics --- Latin language --- Latin language, Colloquial. --- Latin literature --- Speech in literature. --- Latin (Langue) --- Latin familier (Langue) --- Littérature latine --- Parole dans la littérature --- Style. --- History and criticism. --- Stylistique --- Histoire et critique --- Latin language, Colloquial --- Speech in literature --- Style --- History and criticism --- Littérature latine --- Parole dans la littérature --- Colloquial Latin --- Colloquial language --- Latin language, Vulgar --- Spoken Latin --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Latin language - Style --- Latin literature - History and criticism