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Rhys Tranter, Paul Stewart - Beckett’s Late Stage, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Beckett’s Late Stage

Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity

Av Rhys Tranter, Paul Stewart

Del 4 i serien Samuel Beckett in Company

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Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett’s prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett’s live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett’s Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.
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“We had always suspected that Beckett’s destitute characters, his black humour, his bleak one-liners, his cynical minimalism had to do with some form of trauma linked with war-time experiences, but no-one had attempted to read the whole post-war production as a deployment of a phenomenology of trauma. Rhys Tranter is the first to use the whole gamut of protocols developed by trauma studies and bring them to bear on Beckett’s canon from the forties to the eighties. The result is a highly rewarding book full of new insights, superb close readings, and poignant meditations on a time of wounds, yet open to a different future.”— Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

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