‘J’ai mon silence’: The interrelations of sound, voice and silence in three short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner1

Q2 Arts and Humanities
D. Malcolm
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The interrelations of sound, voice and silence in three realist short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner from the 1940s are discussed. The stories are ‘The Proper Circumstances’, ‘The Mother Tongue’ and ‘A Breaking Wave’, all published in the posthumous collection One Thing Leading to Another (1984). Warner is shown to be deeply attuned to sound and its absence in her short fiction; these motifs are integrated with other aspects of setting and with character and narration. Both sound in the text and sound of the text are of semantic importance in her work. Warner’s presentation of silence as a source of power is remarkable, silence being usually configured as lack of agency. Warner’s deployment of silence is related to her status as a lesbian writer.
西尔维娅·汤森·华纳的三篇短篇小说《我爱你,寂静》中声音、声音和寂静的相互关系
探讨了20世纪40年代西尔维娅·汤森-华纳的三部现实主义短篇小说中声音、声音和沉默的相互关系。这些故事分别是《恰当的环境》、《母语》和《巨浪》,都发表在遗作集《一件事导致另一件事》(1984)中。华纳被证明对声音及其在她的短篇小说中的缺席有着深刻的理解;这些主题与背景的其他方面以及人物和叙事融为一体。文本中的声音和文本的声音在她的作品中都具有语义重要性。华纳将沉默作为一种权力来源的表现是非凡的,沉默通常被认为是缺乏代理权。华纳对沉默的部署与她作为女同性恋作家的身份有关。
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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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