Beckettâs Late Stage Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity |
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Author:
| Tranter, Rhys |
Contribution by:
| Stewart, Paul |
Series title: | Samuel Beckett in Company Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-8382-1035-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2018 |
Publisher: | Ibidem Verlag
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $44.00 |
Book Description:
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This book re-examines the Nobel laureate's post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from...
More DescriptionThis book re-examines the Nobel laureate's post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.