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Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett

Duncan McColl Chesney

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Description:The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Beckett's work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett's language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno. By doing so, Chesney addresses how Beckett's works remain true, to the end, to a minimalist impulse that is essentially modernist or late modernist without giving over to the rising dominant of postmodernism. Chesney delineates a sigetics a discourse of silence whose main strategies in Beckett are reticence and ellipsis and through studies of Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, the Trilogy, Company, and other works, teases out of Beckett's minimal aesthetics a Beckettian minimal ethics. In brief glimmers in his texts Beckett provides proleptic hints at reconciliation and the possibility of ethical life that are neither theological nor mystical, but that minimally hold to an alternate rationality from that of the reified world of exchange and catastrophe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett. To get started finding Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 263

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1306147034

Description: The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Beckett's work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett's language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno. By doing so, Chesney addresses how Beckett's works remain true, to the end, to a minimalist impulse that is essentially modernist or late modernist without giving over to the rising dominant of postmodernism. Chesney delineates a sigetics a discourse of silence whose main strategies in Beckett are reticence and ellipsis and through studies of Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, the Trilogy, Company, and other works, teases out of Beckett's minimal aesthetics a Beckettian minimal ethics. In brief glimmers in his texts Beckett provides proleptic hints at reconciliation and the possibility of ethical life that are neither theological nor mystical, but that minimally hold to an alternate rationality from that of the reified world of exchange and catastrophe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett. To get started finding Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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