Into the Breach: Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature
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Main Author: Trezise, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Item Description:Cover ; Contents; Preface; Introduction the Breach; 1. Dispossession; 2. Impersonality; 3. Error; Conclusion the Ends of Literature; Index
Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Beckett's trilogy of novels with the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a ""general economy"" of signification that both produces and dispossesses the phenomenological self. Trezise shows how Beckett's work defines literature as an instance within this economy and in so doing challenges traditional
Physical Description:189 pages
ISBN:9781400861354
1400861357

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