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Samuel Beckett and the language of subjectivity / Derval Tubridy.
Van Pelt Library PR6003.E282 Z8567 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tubridy, Derval, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Language.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Aporia.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations--between languages, genres, bodies, and genders--offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the 21st century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 The old credentials
- Watt
- 2 This cursed first person
- The Unnamable
- Not I
- 3 No knowing not said
- How it is
- What Where
- 4 Whom else
- Footfalls
- Rockaby
- Ill Seen Ill Said
- 5 Rare flickers
- Company
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108483247
- 1108483240
- OCLC:
- 1022076046
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