Author: Ulf Olsson File Type: pdf In Peter Handkes play Kaspar, a young man is forced to learn to speak a process that is a form of physical torture to him. In Jane Austens Mansfield Park, the young heroine desires to keep as silent as possible, since speech directed at her causes such pain. We are not allowed to remain silent, even when the cost of speech is torture and pain. Silence and Subject in Modern Literature uses a wide variety of texts from forms such as the modern crime novel, via popular classics from authors such as Jane Austen, to avant-garde plays by Samuel Beckett and Handke, to study literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak.Informed by critical theory by Foucault and Bakhtin among others, and touching on fields asdiverse as rhetoric, feminism, and the concept of literature,Silence and Subject in Modern Literature engages closelywith a central issue in modern life spoken violence. **

Author: Bernard Lonergan File Type: pdf Grace and Freedom represents Lonergans entry into subject matter that would occupy him throughout his lifetime. At the same time it is a manifestation of the thinking that has made him one of the worlds foremost Thomist scholars. The volume is in two parts. Part One is a new edition of Grace and Freedom Operative Grace in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas, four articles written by Lonergan in 1941-42, first published in book form in 1971. This edition includes new notes and indices. Part Two is Lonergans doctoral dissertation, Gratia Operans, submitted to the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1940. Published here in full for the first time, the dissertation provides important context and background for the articles in the first part. Lonergans thesis is that, from the sixteenth century onwards, commentators on Thomas Aquinas lacked historical consciousness, raised questions that Thomas had never considered, and obfuscated the issues. Lonergans achievement consists in having retrieved the actual position of Thomas by adopting a historical approach that has reconstructed his intellectual development on grace. The majority of contemporary theologians now agree with the implementation of the historical method. What Lonergan also adds is a unique diagnosis of the mistakes made by the modern scholastic authors in their treatment of grace. Throughout this work, Lonergan discovers in Thomas a mind in constant development, displaying radical shifts on fundamental questions. Together the two parts not only reveal an essential step in Lonergans own development, but also make an impressive contribution to Thomist studies. **Review Grace and Freedom is one of the most important books on the theology of Thomas Aquinas to come out of the twentieth century. In it Lonergan shows brilliantly and convincingly that Aquinas arrived at a solution to the problem of grace and freedom that neither the Banezians nor the Molinists ever fathomed. (J. Michael Stebbins, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University) From the Inside Flap Grace and Freedom is one of the most important books on the theology of Thomas Aquinas to come out of the twentieth century. In it Lonergan shows brilliantly and convincingly that Aquinas arrived at a solution to the problem of grace and freedom that neither the Banezians nor the Molinists ever fathomed.