Author: Angela B. MoorjaniPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Abysmal Games in the Novels of Samuel Beckett
Author: Angela B. MoorjaniPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Abysmal Games in the Novels of Samuel Beckett
Author: Angela B. MoorjaniPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett
Author: David PattiePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415202531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.
Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity
Author: Derval TubridyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108651674
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.
Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett
Author: Andrea OppoPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118243
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression. The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or 'who' lies behind this process? What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity? Finally, what sustains and renders possible Beckett's paradoxical axiom of the 'impossibility to express' alongside the 'obligation to express'? By means of a thorough overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will try to answer these questions.
Literature and Philosophy
Author: Herbert GrabesPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823341673
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Zone of Evaporation
Author: Paul StewartPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042020776
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Annotation "From the comic incongruities of Watt to the ontological gaps of The Unnameable, Zone of Evaporation demonstrates the crucial consistent role disjunction played in Beckett's novels. The book describes Beckett's divergence from Proustian metaphor and the revelation of the "real" towards an art which exploited the gaps and fissures within language and narrative and, ultimately, to an art which would go on to upset the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida."--Jacket.
Demented Particulars
Author: Chris AckerleyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748686576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Demented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy. This page by page account of the often unexpected details (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical and other) that went into the making of this
Revisiting Molloy, Malone meurt / Malone Dies and L’Innommable / The Unnamable
Author: David TuckerPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401211639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Drama in the Text
Author: Enoch BraterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Drama in the Text argues that Beckett's late fiction, like his radio plays, demands to be read aloud, since much of the emotional meaning lodges in its tonality. In Beckett's haunting prose work the reader turns listener, collaborating with the sound of words to elucidate meaning from the silence of the universe. Enoch Brater ranges across all of Beckett's work, quoting from it liberally, and makes connections mainly with other writers, but also with details drawn from the entire Western cultural heritage. Brater serves as an authoritative and persuasive guide to the rich texture of such a difficult but compelling vocabulary, providing recognition, insight, and accessibility.