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Author | : Pol Popovic Karic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
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Irony can provide a means to communication, catharsis, and freedom that a person needs in order to survive in a world of permanent chaos and oppression. Ironic Samuel Beckett offers an unorthodox look at Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days from the perspective of irony. This analysis questions the notion the Beckett's "theater of the absurd" is essentially circular or based on nothingness, and invites the reader to reconsider established notions about Beckett and his work.
Author | : Christoph Menke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231145565 |
Download Tragic Play Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close readings of plays by William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, and Botho Strauss, Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of play." In Hamlet, Endgame, Philoktet, and Ithaka, Menke integrates philosophical theory with critical readings to investigate shifting terms of judgment, curse, reversal, misfortune, and violence.
Author | : Wayne C. Booth |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226065537 |
Download A Rhetoric of Irony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"? In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period. Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores—with the help of Plato—the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.
Author | : Laura Salisbury |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748649700 |
Download Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the
Author | : Charles A. Carpenter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1441159746 |
Download The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.
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 | : Ruby Cohn |
Publisher | : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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A full-length study of Samuel Beckett by author Ruby Cohn that intertwines careful analysis with biographical, translation and publishing information to illuminate and explain Beckett's paradoxes.
Author | : Charles I. Glicksberg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401509778 |
Download The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mark S. Byron |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9042022884 |
Download Samuel Beckett's Endgame Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays the first volume in the Dialogue series brings together new and experienced scholars to present innovative critical approaches to Samuel Beckett s play Endgame. These essays broach a broad range of topics, many of which are inherently controversial and have generated significant levels of debate in the past. Critical readings of the play in relation to music, metaphysics, intertextuality, and time are counterpointed by essays that consider the nature of performance, the history of the theater and the music hall, Beckett s attitudes to directing his play, and his responses to other directors. This collection will be of special interest to Beckett scholars, to students of literature and drama, and to drama theorists and practitioners.
Author | : Roberta Cauchi-Santoro |
Publisher | : Firenze University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 8864534059 |
Download Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).