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Beckett and Death
Contributor(s): Barfield, Steven (Editor), Feldman, Matthew (Editor), Tew, Philip (Editor)
ISBN: 0826498353     ISBN-13: 9780826498359
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $173.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2010
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Annotation: A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett, as well as younger academics, analyses a number of Beckett's poems, plays and short stories through consideration of mortality and death.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - French
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 848.914
LCCN: 2009010982
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death.
Chapters explore the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett's work as a whole, through three main approaches. The first of these situates Beckett's thinking about death in his own writing and reading processes, particularly with respect to manuscript drafts and letters. The second on the death of the subject in Beckett links dominant 'poststructural' readings of Beckett's writing to the textual challenge exemplified by the The Unnamable.
A final approach explores psychology and death, with emphasis on deathly states like catatonia and Cotard's Syndrome that recur in Beckett's work. Beckett and Death offers a range of cutting-edge approaches to the trope of mortality, and a unique insight into the relationship of this theme to all aspects of Beckett's literature.

Contributor Bio(s): Tew, Philip: - Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.