Beckett’s Late Stage

Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity

von Rhys Tranter

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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.

• Reihe: Samuel Beckett in Company
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783838210353
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2018
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: ibidem
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Paul Stewart