Samuel Beckett and catastrophe / Michiko Tsushima, Yoshiki Tajiri, Mariko Hori Tanaka, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsushima, Michiko, 1963- editor.

Tajiri, Yoshiki, 1964- editor.

Tanaka, Mariko Hori, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

John Louis Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Disasters in literature.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I: Catastrophe and Aesthetic Creation

2. Tickling your catastrophe, or Becketts Laughing Antistrophe

3. The Not-all Catastrophe in Ill Seen Ill Said / Mal vu mal dit and Comment dire / what is the word by Samuel Beckett

4. Becketts Grey and the Temporality of Afterness

5. Samuel Becketts Catastrophic Synthesis between Leibniz and Schopenhauer

Part II: Catastrophes in History

6. Becketts Sense of History in the Age of Catastrophe

7. Imaginations Dead: Becketts Catastrophic Realism

8. Catastrophe and Everyday Life in Samuel Beckett

Part III: Ecological Catastrophe and the Role of Art

9. Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe

10. A Feminist Counter-apocalyptic Interpretation of Precarity: Reading Samuel Becketts Catastrophe in the Post-catastrophe Age

11. Gestures of Helpless Compassion: Becketts Eco-poetics of Extinction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Samuel Beckett and catastrophe.

ISBN:

9783031083686

3031083687

Publisher Number:

99995500817

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.