Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature Contributor(s): Langlois, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474444377 ISBN-13: 9781474444378 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | Political |
Series: Other Becketts |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Provides a sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terror Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett's, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance - ethical, ontological, and political - to what speaks in Beckett's texts. Key Features
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