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Author | : Ciaran Ross |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-02-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230575189 |
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Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints of Beckett's negative status, not only within psychoanalytic literary criticism, but within Beckett criticism at large.
Author | : Colleen Jaurretche |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9042016175 |
Download Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains English Literature of the 20th century.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 940120120X |
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This collection presents articles that examine Joyce and Beckett’s mutual interest in and use of the negative for artistic purposes. The essays range from philological to psychoanalytic approaches to the literature, and they examine writing from all stages of the authors’ careers. The essays do not seek a direct comparison of author to author; rather they lay out the intellectual and philosophical foundations of their work, and are of interest to the beginning student as well as to the specialist.
Author | : David Kleinberg-Levin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1474216889 |
Download Beckett's Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.
Author | : Joseph Anderton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1474234542 |
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In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama, particularly texts from the middle period, including Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Anderton explicates four arenas of creaturely life in Beckett. Each chapter attends to a particular theme – testimony, power, humour and survival – to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that precipitate the creaturely state of suspension. Drawing on the writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida to explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures of creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that bespeaks the provisional nature of the human. The result is a provocative examination of the indirect relationship between art and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour and survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning after Auschwitz.
Author | : Leland de la Durantaye |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-01-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0674504852 |
Download Beckett’s Art of Mismaking Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.
Author | : Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 080219835X |
Download Watt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004394524 |
Download Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume focusses on the rarely discussed method of meaning production via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media.
Author | : Alexandra Irimia |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-10-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3111150704 |
Download Figures of Radical Absence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Beci Carver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0198709927 |
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Granular Modernism understands the way that some modernist texts put themselves together as a way of pulling themselves apart. In this volume, Beci Carver offers a new way of reading Modernist texts, by drawing attention to the anomalies that make them difficult to summarise or simplify. Carver proposes that rather than trying to find the shapes of narrative or argument in their writing, the 'Granular Modernists'- - namely, Joseph Conrad, William Gerhardie, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Samuel Beckett -- experiment in certain of their works in finding the shapelessness of a moment in history that increasingly confidently called itself 'modern', which was to call itself shapeless. The project of modernism in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, was to find a story to tell about an era full of beginnings. The project of 'Granular Modernism' was to find a way of turning the inchoateness of the modern moment into art. Granular Modernism takes from the Naturalist movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century its attentiveness to the process of mundane experiences like eating or waiting. But where Naturalism sets out to offer a complete picture of a way of life, Granular Modernism's eating and waiting fail to amount to anything more; to paraphrase Evelyn Waugh: 'The most they can hope for is a cumulative futility.' Frank Norris once described one of Stephen Crane's narrators as: 'a locust in a grain elevator attempting to empty the silo by carrying off one grain at a time.' Norris is being dismissive. But his image of pointless, meticulous, indefinite manoeuvre potentially defines the ambition of the Granular Modernists.