Borderless Beckett : Becket sans frontieres : Tokyo 2006 / edited by / edite par Minako Okamuro ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Series:

Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui ; 19.

Samuel Beckett today ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Congresses.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

SBT/A 19 features selected papers from the Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontières Symposium held in Tokyo at Waseda University in 2006. The essays penned by eminent and young scholars from around the world examine the many ways Beckett's art crosses borders: coupling reality and dream, life and death, as in Japanese Noh drama, or transgressing distinctions between limits and limitlessness; humans, animals, virtual bodies, and stones; French and English; words and silence; and the received frameworks of philosophy and aesthetics. The highlight of the volume is the contribution by Nobel La

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES; INTRODUCTION; EIGHT WAYS OF LOOKING AT SAMUEL BECKETT; DISLOCATIONS: LIMITS AND LIMITLESSNESS; LITTÉRATURE ET PHILOSOPHIE : VOIX ET IMAGES EN QUESTION; Of CLOWNS AND ARTISTS; ANIMALS, HUMANS, STONES; TELEVISION'S "SAVAGE EYE": PHANTASMAGORICAL AND VIRTUAL BODIES; BECKETT'S BORDERLESS WORDS / PAROLES SANS FRONTIÈRES; WITNESSING; "SSSH" : SOUNDS AND SIGNS OF SILENCE; BORDERLESSNESS : LIFE AND DEATH / BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS; CONTRIBUTORS / LISTE DES AUTEURS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0580-9

1-4356-5490-0

OCLC:

714568421