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Into the Breach : Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature.
Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Becke...
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| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Access: | Online version |
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| Summary: | Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Beckett's trilogy of novels with the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a ""general economy"" of signification that both produces and dispossesses the phenomenological self. Trezise shows how Beckett's work defines literature as an instance within this economy and in so doing challenges traditional. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (189 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400861354 1400861357 |
| Access: | JSTOR Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |