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Iconic spaces : the dark theology of Samuel Beckett's drama / Sandra Wynands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynands, Sandra, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Religion.
- Theology in literature.
- Spiritual life in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Iconic Spaces looks at Samuel Beckett's mature theatrical work as a displaced theology of the icon.Sandra Wynands rejects conventional existentialist or nihilist interpretations of Beckett's work, arguing instead that beneath the text, in the depths of language and being, Beckett creates an absolutely irreducible, transcendent space.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Visuality and iconicity in Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe
- "Three dialogues" and the economy of art
- Metaphor and metonymy in Not I
- The empty space of Quad
- The reduction of Film
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-268-09660-0
- OCLC:
- 694144467
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