Beckett and Death
Language: English
Published by Continnuum-3PL, 2009
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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. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 478. …
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- Title
- Beckett and Death
- Publisher
- Continnuum-3PL
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Gebundene Ausgabe
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826498353
- ISBN 13
- 9780826498359
- Item weight
- 478 grams
- Series
- Book 12 of 45: Continuum Literary Studies
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.
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About the Author
Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, and Professorial Fellow at the Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014).
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