Abstract This chapter investigates the different ways in which Irish short story can be considered an art of silence. Taking Joyce’s Dubliners as example, it first provides overview strategies silence used modern story: ellipsis, eclipse and epiphany. While these are a corollary story’s brevity, they also reflect what Susan Sontag called aesthetics silence, art’s attempt to communicate unsayabl...

Translation of a literary text is a difficult task, for understanding literature requires knowledge of various linguistic levels of a literary text in addition to strategies and methods of translation. To this should still be added cognitive-based translation training which helps practitioners preserve the aesthetic aspects of a literary text. Focusing on short story as a genre with both ...