Posthuman Space In Samuel Beckett S Short Prose

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Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

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Genre : Human beings in literature
Author : Jonathan Boulter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2018-12-19
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474430272


Understanding Badiou Understanding Modernism

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In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism. From the milieu of May 1968 to the contemporary 'postmodern' ethos, Badiou returns, time and again, to avant-garde modernist texts – aesthetic, political, philosophical and scientific – as inspiration for his response to present situations. Drawing upon disciplines as varied as architecture, cinema, theatre, music, history, mathematics, poetry and philosophy, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism shows how Badiou's contribution to philosophy must be understood within the context of his decades-long conversation with modernist thinking. As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism follows a three part structure. The first section explores Badiou's readings of aesthetic, political and scientific modernities; both introducing his system and pointing to how Badiou offers manifold readings of modernism. The middle portion of the book connects Badiou's thought with the various strands of aesthetic, philosophical, amorous and political modernisms in relation to which it can be extended. The final section is a glossary of key concepts and categories that Badiou uses in his interface with modernism.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Arka Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2024-05-16
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781501384417


Samuel Beckett S How It Is

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A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2018-09-07
File : 305 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474440622


Eliot And Beckett S Low Modernism

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<h4>Explores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</h4>

<ul><li>Offers the first book-length comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</li>
<li>Develops a literary theory of humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology</li>
<li>Explores the relation between negative affect, ethics and aesthetics</li></ul>

<p>Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett share an imperfect likeness. Between them is a common interest in states of abjection, shame and suffering – and possible responses to such states. Tracing the relation between negative affect, ethics, and aesthetics, <i>Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism</i> demonstrates how these two major modernists recuperate the affinity between humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology.</p>

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Rick de Villiers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2021-11-24
File : 261 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474479066


The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Literary And Cultural Theory

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2018-11-15
File : 800 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781350012813


The Complete Short Prose Of Samuel Beckett 1929 1989

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Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release : 2007-12-01
File : 346 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802198433