| Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Weller, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403995818 ISBN-13: 9781403995810 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: If there is one trait common to almost all post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and makes possible a post-metaphysical ethics. Beckett's "oeuvre" in particular has repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an affirmation. In "Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity", however, Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2005056412 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 7.47" W x 8.61" (0.90 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity. |
