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The aesthetics of failure : inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett's fiction / by Marcin Tereszewski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tereszewski, Marcin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Aesthetics.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Failure (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Beckett's output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Beckett's work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and ...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5524-3
- OCLC:
- 868489042
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