Beckett and dialectics

Beckett and dialectics: be it something or nothing

by Ruda, Eva

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"For a long time, analysis of Samuel Beckett's work has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations, yet this new volume exposes a different Beckett, whose work exposes and challenges central dialectical components- such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, and most crucially: negativity. Most excitingly, it offers new perspectives, not just on how the writer used shapes, types and forms of negation, but on the dialectical structure of a wide range…

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  • Full title :Beckett and dialectics : be it something or nothing / edited by Eva Ruda.

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"For a long time, analysis of Samuel Beckett's work has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations, yet this new volume exposes a different Beckett, whose work exposes and challenges central dialectical components- such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, and most crucially: negativity. Most excitingly, it offers new perspectives, not just on how the writer used shapes, types and forms of negation, but on the dialectical structure of a wide range of Beckettian phenomena, like the relation between voice and silence, and space and void, thus forming an important new element of Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, dialectics itself"--

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  • Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781350136854, 1350136859, 1350136840, 9781350136861, 1350136867, 9781350136847
  • oclc:on1198988196
  • LC Classification:PR6003.E282
  • Dewey Decimal:848/.91409

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction Eva Ruda -- II Samuel Beckett's Method Alain Badiou -- III Two Shades of Gray Mladen Dolar -- IV Senile Dialectic Rebecca Comay -- V Beckett's Unnamable Realism Eva Ruda -- VI Watt Forms Life: Beckett and the Theory of the Novel Philipp Weber -- VII No Louder: Beckett and the Dynamics of Monotony Tadej Troha -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Subjects

Beckett, Samuel Criticism, interpretation, etc Dialectic in literature Dialectique dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory Literature & literary studies Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Language Philosophy (General) Philosophy of language

Writers

Ruda, Eva

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