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1 online resource (x, 259 pages) |
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Other Becketts |
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Other Becketts.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Terror in philosophy, politics and literature -- 1. The terror of thinking in The Unnamable -- 2. The beginning (again) and ending (again) of terror in Texts for Nothing -- 3. The writing of How It Is in the paratactic delay of terror -- 4. The terror of passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho -- Coda : Literature at the turning point of terror |
| Summary |
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett's, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance -- ethical, ontological, and political -- to what speaks in Beckett's texts.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index |
| Notes |
Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and the Faulkner Journal, and he is the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018) |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Terror in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Terror in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474419017 |
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1474419011 |
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9781474419024 |
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147441902X |
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1474419003 |
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9781474419000 |
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