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Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality (Irish Studies)
Eric Levy
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Description for Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality (Irish Studies)
Hardcover. Aims to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations of the human experience. This work maintains that diligent reading of the Beckett corpus reveals that Beckett was intensely concerned with representing certain "constitutive principles" of the human condition. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 435.
The aim of Eric P. Levy's book is to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations of the human experience. He maintains that diligent reading of the Beckett corpus, alongside key texts in the history of Western thought reveals that Beckett was intensely concerned with representing certain ""constitutive principles"" of the human condition and that the human condition Beckett saw and represented was one founded on principles of doubt, negation, unknowing, and unverifiable being. One of the book's major contributions to Beckett studies is its exhaustive engagement with mainstream Continental ... Read more
The aim of Eric P. Levy's book is to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations of the human experience. He maintains that diligent reading of the Beckett corpus, alongside key texts in the history of Western thought reveals that Beckett was intensely concerned with representing certain ""constitutive principles"" of the human condition and that the human condition Beckett saw and represented was one founded on principles of doubt, negation, unknowing, and unverifiable being. One of the book's major contributions to Beckett studies is its exhaustive engagement with mainstream Continental ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631026
SKU
V9780815631026
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About Eric Levy
Eric P. Levy is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author of Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction.
Reviews for Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality (Irish Studies)
Wholly enlightening and an important read.... The import, strength, and originality of the project lie in Levy's thorough knowledge of the Beckett oeuvre and his related concern for allowing primary texts to speak as much as possible about the uniquely complex and profound, ultimately discernable and consistent, modes of existence that concerned their author." - Nels Pearson, Tennessee State University ... Read more