Beckett and DeathSteven Barfield, Philip Tew, Matthew Feldman A&C Black, 26/12/2009 - 229 páginas Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death. Chapters explore the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett's work as a whole, through three main approaches. The first of these situates Beckett's thinking about death in his own writing and reading processes, particularly with respect to manuscript drafts and letters. The second on the death of the subject in Beckett links dominant ‘poststructural' readings of Beckett's writing to the textual challenge exemplified by the The Unnamable. A final approach explores psychology and death, with emphasis on deathly states like catatonia and Cotard's Syndrome that recur in Beckett's work. Beckett and Death offers a range of cutting-edge approaches to the trope of mortality, and a unique insight into the relationship of this theme to all aspects of Beckett's literature. |
Índice
Beckett and Death | 1 |
Strange Exalted Death Disinterring Beckett and Death | 9 |
Textual Existence and Death in Beckett | 22 |
Beckett and the Politics of Death | 31 |
3 O Death Where Is Thy Sting? Finding Words for the Big Ideas | 50 |
4 Beckett Augustine and the Rhetoric of Dying | 72 |
5 Inane Space and Lively Place in Becketts Forties Fiction | 89 |
From Malone Dies to The Unnamable | 106 |
7 Becketts Amnesiacs Neuropsychology and Temporal Moribundity | 128 |
Radio the Listener and the Dark Comedy of All That Fall | 147 |
Becketts Death of the Species and Fictional Regeneration | 169 |
10 Becketts Late Style | 188 |
Samuel Becketts Cemeteries | 206 |
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