Beckett and Buddhism

by Moorjani, Angela B.

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Title Statements

Full title :Beckett and Buddhism / Angela Moorjani, University of Maryland, UMBC.

Summary

"Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century who explored uncharted topologies in his fiction, theatre, and poetry"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781009024082, 1009024086, 9781009022057, 1009022059
oclc:on1260473698
LC Classification:PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal:848/.91409

Introduction: Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Beckett: Influence, Affinity, Relay? -- Schopenhauer's Buddhism Revisited: Recent Archival Evidence -- East-West Dialogue via Schopenhauer -- Buddhist and Mystic Threads in the Early Fiction -- Beckett's Paradoxical Logic through Buddhist and Western Lenses -- The Coincidence of Contraries and Noh Drama -- The No-Self Staged and Voices from Elsewhere -- Rebirth and the Buddhist Unborn in the Fiction and Drama -- Dreaming 'all away' in the Final Texts.

Subjects

Beckett, Samuel Bouddhisme dans la littérature Buddhism in literature Buddhist philosophy in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Critiques littéraires literary criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory RELIGION Schopenhauer, Arthur