Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love / John Robert Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, John Robert, author.

Contributor:

Keller, John Robert, contributor.

Butler, Lance St. John, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--Psychological aspects.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This study considers the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work. John Keller explores the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing, believing the texts embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goodness.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

1. Preliminaries and Proust

2. No Endon sight: Murphy's misrecognition of love

3. This emptied heart: Watt's unwelcome home

4. A strange situation: self-entrapment in Waiting for Godot

5. The dispeopled kingdom: the hidden self in Beckett's short fiction

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526121189

1526121182

OCLC:

1399979601