Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose
Author: Jonathan Boulter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Human beings in literature
ISBN: 1474430279

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose
Author: Boulter Jonathan Boulter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Human beings in literature
ISBN: 1474430287

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimately beyond categories of life and death. And yet, despite this dismantling, the narrators of these texts still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world.Key Features:Provides a philosophical reading of Samuel BeckettRethinks Beckett in relation to the posthumanContributes to a relatively ignored aspect of Samuel Beckett's writing, the short prose

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802134905

Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802198430

Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski.

Nohow On

Nohow On
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802198341

The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In Company, a man—"one on his back in the dark"—hears a voice speak to him, describing significant moments from his lifetime, and yet these memories may be merely fables and figments invented for the sake of companionship. Ill Seen Ill Said tells of a solitary old woman who paces around a cabin, burdened by existence itself. And Worstword Ho explores a world devoid of rationality and purpose, containing the famous directive: "Try again. Fail Again. Fail Better." The quintessential distillation of Beckett’s philosophy on human existence and the ultimate example of his minimalist approach to fiction, Nohow On is a vital collection, concerned with conception and perception, memory and imagination.

Samuel Beckett's How It Is

Samuel Beckett's How It Is
Author: Anthony Cordingley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474440622

A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.

Stories and Texts for Nothing

Stories and Texts for Nothing
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802198317

This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, “You can’t stay here,” they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on. Includes: “The Expelled” “The Calmative” “The End” Texts for Nothing (1-10)

Three Novels

Three Novels
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2009-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802144470

Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.

Collected Short Prose

Collected Short Prose
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: John Calder Pub Limited
Total Pages:
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780714542003