| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum literary studies series
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Strange exalted death! : disinterring Beckett and death / Mark Nixon -- Writing myself into the ground : textual existence and death in Beckett / Shane Weller -- Orgy of false being life in common : Beckett and the politics of death / Sean Lawlor -- O death where is thy sting? : finding words for the big ideas / Elizabeth Barry -- Beckett, Augustine, and the rhetoric of dying / David Addyman -- Inane space and lively place in Beckett's forties fiction / Erik Tonning -- Beckett's unholy dying : from Malone dies to The unnamable / Peter Fifield -- Beckett's amnesiacs, neuropsychology and temporal moribundity / Julie Campbell -- A voice comes to one in the dark--imagine : radio, the listener and the dark comedy of All that fall / Paul Stewart -- Sterile reproduction : Beckett's death of the species and fictional regeneration / Steven Matthews. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Death in literature.
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Death in literature. |
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Mortality in literature.
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Mortality in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barfield, Steven.
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Tew, Philip.
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Feldman, Matthew.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beckett and death. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826498359 (DLC) 2009010982 (OCoLC)310401918 |
| ISBN |
9781441165435 (electronic book) |
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1441165436 (electronic book) |
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9780826498359 (hardback) |
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0826498353 (hardback) |
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9781441160003 |
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1441160000 |
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9781441191311 |
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1441191313 |
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