Samuel Becketts Geological Imagination
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Author | : Mark Byron |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108800033 |
Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways. By deploying figures of ruination and excavation with etymological self-awareness, Beckett's late prose narratives – Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho – comprise a late-career meditation on the stratigraphic layerings of language and memory over an extended writing career. These layers comprise an embodied record of writing in their allusions to literary history and to Beckett's own oeuvre.
Author | : Samuel Beckett |
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Release | : 1998-12 |
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ISBN | : 9780714542379 |
Author | : Samuel Beckett |
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Wimbush Andy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3838213696 |
In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.
Author | : William J. Thompson |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781575911151 |
Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.
Author | : Julie Bates |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107167043 |
Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion
Author | : Emilie Morin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110841799X |
Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.
Author | : Derval Tubridy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108483240 |
The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's prose and theatre.
Author | : Anthony Uhlmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107017033 |
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.
Author | : Jean-Michel Rabaté |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108471854 |
Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.