| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
'But what was this pursuit of meaning, in this indifference to meaning?' : Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'meaning creation' / Matthew Feldman -- Phenomenologies of the nothing : Democritus, Heidegger, Beckett / Shane Weller -- Beckett and Sartre : the nauseous character of all flesh / Steven Connor -- 'Material of a strictly peculiar order' : Beckett, Merleau-Ponty and perception / Ulrika Maude -- Between art-world and life-world : Beckett's Dream of fair to middling women / Mark Nixon -- Murphydurke, or towards a phenomenology of immaturity (reading Murphy with Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke) / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Bodily histories : Beckett and the phenomenological approach to the other / Steven Matthews -- What remains of Beckett : evasion and history / Daniel Katz -- Beckett's ghost dramas : monitoring a phenomenology of sleep / Paul Sheehan -- Living the unnamable : towards a phenomenology of reading / Paul Stewart -- The 'distinct context of relevant knowledge' : Samuel Beckett's 'Yellow' and the phenomenology of annotation / Chris Ackerley |
| Summary |
Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an analysis of hitherto unexplored phenomenological themes, such as nausea, immaturity and sleep, in Beckett' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
| Subject |
Phenomenology and literature.
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Phenomenology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Phenomenology and literature
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Phenomenology in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maude, Ulrika.
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Feldman, Matthew.
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| ISBN |
9781441155528 |
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144115552X |
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9781441123176 |
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1441123172 |
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1282875027 |
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9781282875029 |
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1472542967 |
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9781472542960 |
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9786612875021 |
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661287502X |
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9781441194619 |
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1441194614 |
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