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Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas (New Interpertations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)
Peter Fifield
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Hardcover. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137294074
SKU
V9781137294074
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About Peter Fifield
Peter Fifield is a junior research fellow at St John s College, University of Oxford.
Reviews for Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas (New Interpertations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)
"When he was a war prisoner in Germany, Emmanuel Levinas was entertaining dreams of becoming a famous novelist. Fifield's fascinating study explains why, had he written the novels he was planning, they would have looked more like Beckett's texts than like Proust's: faces letting an infinite otherness shine through them, infinitesimal traces of traces, an 'otherwise than being' conveyed via ... Read more