Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity
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- Author: Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Date Published: July 2018
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108483247
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Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.
Read more- Proposes a new way to understand subjectivity and identity
- Makes a unique contribution to the fields of Beckett studies and modernism
- Moves fluently between literary and performance analysis, philosophy, and aesthetics
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'… the book injects new energy into well-rehearsed debates, intervening in conversations on the primacy of gesture and rhythm in Beckett, on the correspondences between his experiments in drama and narrative, and on the irreducible distance between bodily existence and self-relation.' Ruben Borg, Journal of Modern Literature
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- Date Published: July 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108483247
- length: 230 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The old credentials
2. This cursed first person
3. No knowing not said
4. Whom else
5. Rare flickers
Conclusion.
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