Beckett and ethics

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An international team of contributors examione how Beckett's work from the famous 'siege in the room' of 1945-50 might be seen as responding to specific ethical crises of post-war Europe.

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Full title :Beckett and ethics / edited by Russell Smith.

Summary

An international team of contributors examione how Beckett's work from the famous 'siege in the room' of 1945-50 might be seen as responding to specific ethical crises of post-war Europe.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 186 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780826498366, 9781441151179, 1441151176, 0826498361
oclc:ocn245564043
LC Classification:PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal:848.91409

Beckett's ethical undoing / Russell Smith -- 'We have our being in justice' : formalism, abstraction and Beckett's 'Ethics' / David Cunningham -- Suitable engine of destruction? : Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx's ethics / Matthew Feldman -- Withholding assent : Beckett in the light of Stoic ethics / Anthony Uhlmann -- Post-war Beckett : resistance, commitment or communist krap? / Jackie Blackman -- World without monsters : Beckett and the ethics of cruelty / Paul Sheehan -- Anethics of desire : Beckett, Racine, Sade / Shane Weller -- 'So fluctuant a death' : entropy and survival in The lost ones and Long observation of the ray / David Houston Jones -- Beckett and the world / Steven Connor -- From Joyce to Beckett : from national to global / Peter Boxall -- 'Throw up for good' : gagging, compulsion and a comedy of ethics in the trilogy / Laura Salisbury.

Subjects

18.05 English literature 18.25 French literature Aufsatzsammlung Beckett, Samuel Criticism, interpretation, etc Ethics Ethics in literature Ethiek Ethik Etik i litteraturen Morale dans la littérature Philosophie dans la littérature Philosophy in literature