UID:
almahu_9948635332502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxvi, 265 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
ISBN:
9781526146458
Inhalt:
Beckett and nothing invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which ‘little nothings’ pervade the Beckett canon. The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at ‘nothing’ not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on ‘nothing’ in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television. The volume is a scholarly intervention in the fields of Beckett studies which offers its chapters as case studies to use in the classroom. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies.
Anmerkung:
Made available via: manchesteropenhive.
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Foreword --‘Nothing new' --Introduction ‘Beckett and nothing: trying to understand Beckett’ --1.‘On not being there: going on without in Beckett’ --2. ‘Nothing of value: reading Beckett’s negativity’ --3. ‘Nothing has changed’ --4. ‘“A tangle of tatters”: ghosts and the busy nothing in Footfalls --5. ‘Nothings in particular’ --6. ‘Unwords’ --7. ‘Into the Void: Beckett’s television plays and the idea of broadcasting’ --8. ‘Beckett, Feldman, Salcedo… Neither’ --9. ‘From Film to literature: theoretical debates and the critical erasure of Beckett’s cinema’ --10. ‘Beckett and unheard sound’ --11. ‘It’s nothing: Beckett and anxiety’ --12. ‘“Something or nothing”: Beckett and the matter of language’ ‘The no-thing that knows no name and the Beckett envelope, blissfully reconsidered’ --Bibliography --Index.
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Also available in print form.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Caselli, Daniela. Beckett and nothing. Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780719080197
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7765/9781526146458
URL:
http://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526146458/9781526146458.xml
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