Naming Beckett S Unnamable

Author : Gary Adelman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838755739

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Naming Beckett's Unnamable by Gary Adelman Pdf

Kafka's struggle with spiritual deadlock helped Beckett, at crucial impasses in his own art, to find his way to Molloy and the trilogy, and later, to discern the importance of torture to the creative imagination, especially in How It Is.". "This book will interest those seeking a new, absorbing reading of Beckett's great prose."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Wanda Teays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1033202602

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Naming The Unnamable by Wanda Teays Pdf

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266920

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The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Pdf

The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation. I can't go on, I'll go on. Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him. Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in piles of blankets, wiling away the time with stories - writing, reminiscing, raging, surviving. The Unnameable: an armless and legless creature from a nameless place, weeping and watching in his urn, orbited by visitors outside a chop-house. Together, these selves speak, debate, exist: the prose as alive, or more, than them. 'The master innovator of them all.' Guardian

Author : Peter S. Hawkins,Anne Howland Schotter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498284318

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Ineffability by Peter S. Hawkins,Anne Howland Schotter Pdf

The essays in this volume explore the persistent struggle of language to overcome its own limitations. Given their scope--from Dante's confrontation with the divine All to Samuel Beckett's obsessive need to speak in the face of Nothing--they expand our notion of the extent to which all speech is an assault on silence, an attempt to articulate what lies beyond the grasp of words. The collection offers the reader, in roughly chronological order, diverse conceptions of the ineffable as either superfluity or absence of reality. It also exposes language in the act of extending its own boundaries, drawing attention to those literary tactics by which speech attempts to suggest what cannot be said. While largely a study of poetry, from medieval to modern, the volume also touches upon drama and a variety of prose, combining close textual readings with broader thematic discussions.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0571244645

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The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Pdf

The third of Beckett’s post-war novels, after Molloy and Malone Dies, The Unnamable was first published in French, and in Beckett’s English in 1958. ‘Like a great horned owl in an aviary’, the unnamable narrator – so named because he knows not who he may be – sits nowhere and speaks of previous selves (‘all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones do not fool me’) as so many diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether. As with the earlier novels, the prose has its own indomitable precisions, its afflicted but desirous reasons for being. you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on

Author : Linda Ben-Zvi,Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190296032

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Beckett at 100 by Linda Ben-Zvi,Angela Moorjani Pdf

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries, who take on the centenary challenge of "revolving it all": that is, going "back to Beckett"-the title of an earlier study by critic Ruby Cohn, to whom the book is dedicated-in order to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contexts and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations. These original essays, most first presented by the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the Dublin centenary celebration, are divided into three sections: (1) Thinking through Beckett, (2) Shifting Perspectives, and (3) Echoing Beckett. As repeatedly in his canon, images precede words. The book opens with stills from films of experimental filmmaker Peter Gidal and unpublished excerpts from Beckett's 1936-37 German Travel Diaries, presented by Beckett biographer James Knowlson, with permission from the Beckett estate. Renowned director and theatre theoretician Herbert Blau follows with his personal Beckett "thinking through." Others in Part I explore Beckett and philosophy (Abbott), the influences of Bergson (Gontarski) and Leibniz (Mori), Beckett and autobiography (Locatelli), and Agamben on post-Holocaust testimony (Jones). Essays in Part II recontextualize Beckett's works in relation to iconography (Moorjani), film theoretician Rudolf Arnheim (Engelberts), Marshall McLuhan (Ben-Zvi), exilic writing (McMullan), Pierre Bourdieu's literary field (Siess), romanticism (Brater), social theorists Adorno and Horkheimer (Degani-Raz), and performance issues (Rodríguez-Gago). Part III relates Beckett's writing to that of Yeats (Okamuro), Paul Auster (Campbell), Caryl Churchill (Diamond), William Saroyan (Bryden), Minoru Betsuyaku and Harold Pinter (Tanaka) and Morton Feldman and Jasper Johns (Laws). Finally, Beckett himself becomes a character in other playwrights' works (Zeifman). Taken together these essays make a clear case for the challenges and rewards of thinking through Beckett in his second century.

Author : Victoria Aarons,Phyllis Lassner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030334284

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The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture by Victoria Aarons,Phyllis Lassner Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives—survivor writing, second and third generation—and genres—memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458376416

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The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Judith B. Kerman,John Edgar Browning
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786458745

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The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film by Judith B. Kerman,John Edgar Browning Pdf

When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a range of theoretical perspectives, this collection of essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010).

Author : Joseph Anderton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474234559

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Beckett's Creatures by Joseph Anderton Pdf

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama, particularly texts from the middle period, including Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Anderton explicates four arenas of creaturely life in Beckett. Each chapter attends to a particular theme – testimony, power, humour and survival – to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that precipitate the creaturely state of suspension. Drawing on the writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida to explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures of creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that bespeaks the provisional nature of the human. The result is a provocative examination of the indirect relationship between art and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour and survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning after Auschwitz.

Author : Eric Migernier
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820486493

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Beckett and French Theory by Eric Migernier Pdf

Samuel Beckett's works have spawned a great variety of critical - sometimes contradictory - interpretations, most recently ones stemming from postmodern theories of literature. In keeping with this trend, this book probes the relationship between Beckett's fiction and the work of a number of contemporary French thinkers, such as Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze, which demonstrates how concepts such as «the thought of the outside» and «the simulacrum» also generate Beckett's transgressive narrative. Beckett and French Theory provides valuable new knowledge and understanding to teachers and students of both Beckett's fiction and recent French critical theory.

Author : M. Bryden,M. Topping
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230239470

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Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust by M. Bryden,M. Topping Pdf

An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

Author : Georgina Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108996488

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Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent Pdf

What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the first extended comparative study of Stein's role in the development of Beckett's aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the major critical lacuna that is Stein's role and influence on Beckett's nascent bilingual aesthetics of the late 1930s. It argues for Stein's influence on the aesthetics of language Beckett developed throughout the 1930s, and on the overall evolution of his bilingual English writings, arguing that Stein's writing was itself inherently bilingual. It forwards the technique of renarration – a form of repetition identifiable in the work of both authors – as a deliberate narrative strategy adopted by both authors to actualise the desired semantic tearing concordant with their aesthetic praxes in English.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201209

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Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative by Anonim Pdf

This collection presents articles that examine Joyce and Beckett’s mutual interest in and use of the negative for artistic purposes. The essays range from philological to psychoanalytic approaches to the literature, and they examine writing from all stages of the authors’ careers. The essays do not seek a direct comparison of author to author; rather they lay out the intellectual and philosophical foundations of their work, and are of interest to the beginning student as well as to the specialist.

Author : Daniel Katz
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810116839

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Saying I No More by Daniel Katz Pdf

This study argues that the expression of voicelessness in Beckett is not silence. Rather, the negativity and negation so evident in his work are not simply affirmed, but the emptiness can all too easily itself become an affirmation of power.