Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times

Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.

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Main Author: Schwab, Gabriele 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2023
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moments for Nothing: Endgame and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transitional Space Between Life and Death: "The Calmative," Molloy, and Malone Dies -- 3. End Times of Subjectivity: The Unnamable -- 4. "Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe": Happy Days and the Last Humans -- 5. Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: The Lost Ones -- Coda: Breath and the Vicissitudes of Animation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
ISBN:9780231558990
DOI:10.7312/schw21160

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