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Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Christophe Langlois
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Description for Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Paperback. Series: Other Becketts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Providesa sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terror
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Other Becketts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474419000
SKU
V9781474419000
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About Christophe Langlois
Christopher Langlois is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at St. Lawrence University.
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