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Author |
: David Kleinberg-Levin |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2015-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474216883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474216889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Words by : David Kleinberg-Levin
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.
Author |
: Christopher Ricks |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192824074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192824073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Dying Words by : Christopher Ricks
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth; the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has created new possiblities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition, an age of transplants and life-support. But howdoes a writer give life to dismay at life itself, to the not-simply-unwelcome encroachments of death? After all, it is for the life, the vitality, of their language that we value writers. As a young man, Beckett himself praised Joyce's words. `They are alive.' Beckett became himself as a writer when he realized in his very words a principle of death. In cliches, which are dead but won't lie down. In a dead language and its memento mori. In words which mean their own opposites, cleaving andcleaving. In the self-stultifying or suicidal turn, dubbed the Irish bull. In what Beckett called a syntax of weakness. This book explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer - the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and in French, two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death.
Author |
: David Kleinberg-Levin |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2015-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474216838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474216838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Words by : David Kleinberg-Levin
A radical re-reading of Samuel Beckett's work as promising happiness and enlightenment. Kleinberg-Levin rejects the traditional interpretation of Beckett's work as nihilistic and negative, proposing a Beckett unlike we've ever encountered before.
Author |
: Gordon S. Armstrong |
Publisher |
: Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838751415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838751411 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats by : Gordon S. Armstrong
In contrast to the many critics who consider W. B. Yeats a dominant influence on Beckett's drama, this study demonstrates that the two are almost diametrically opposed in their theater and that the real bridge to Beckett's art is to be found in the narrative and pictorial creations of the younger Yeats brother, Jack.
Author |
: Lois Oppenheim |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472111175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472111176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Painted Word by : Lois Oppenheim
Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression
Author |
: Samuel Beckett |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802198440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802198449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collected Poems in English and French by : Samuel Beckett
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
Author |
: Adam Piette |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015037462515 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remembering and the Sound of Words by : Adam Piette
In this book Adam Piette establishes fascinating new links between sound effects and the representation of memory in literary texts. He sets out a workable taxonomy of sound-repetitions in prose and formulates, through a theory of alerting-devices, the ways in which the reader's attention is drawn to the acoustic surface of the text. Piette scrutinizes Mallarm 's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from the Portrait of the Artist through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake), and Beckett's prose and drama, demonstrating that sound effects act as intricate reminders of memory-traces in the text. Despite how widely the four writers diverge in their representations of memory, Piette shows that the use of this memory-rhyme technique is common to them all.
Author |
: Samuel Beckett |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802150667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802150660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis How it is by : Samuel Beckett
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.
Author |
: Christopher Ricks |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015029974840 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Dying Words by : Christopher Ricks
Most people want to live forever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humor, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has created new possibilities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition--an age of transplants and life-support. But how does a writer give life to dismay at life itself, to the not unwelcome encroachments of death, when it is for the life, the vitality of their language that we value writers? Beckett became himself as a writer when he realized in his very words a principle of death: in clichés, which are dead but won't lie down; in a dead language and its memento mori; in words which mean their own opposites, like cleaving; and in what Beckett called a syntax of weakness. This artful study explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer, the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and in French, two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death.
Author |
: David Kleinberg-Levin |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2015-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474216869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474216862 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Words by : David Kleinberg-Levin
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.