|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
|
Buy Now
Samuel Beckett - Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Paperback)
Loot Price: R729
Discovery Miles 7 290
|
|
|
Samuel Beckett - Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Gift Of The Givers
Total price: R749
Discovery Miles: 7 490
|
Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post war ethics of
representation. Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an
author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable
seriousness of the post Holocaust situation. How can these two
statements sit together? Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction,
drama and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the
Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose and the late
plays, this book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic
timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the
ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the
same time, opening up a space for how it ought to be. Presents
innovative readings of the comedy found in Beckett's fiction, drama
and critical writings; spans Beckett's entire oeuvre, using
published and unpublished sources; engages with recent and
contemporary philosophical approaches to literature, including work
by Derrida, Badiou, Levinas, and Adorno; makes a unique
contribution to theoretical work on comedy and laughter and
provides a rigorous introduction to the theoretical debates
surrounding the relationship between modernist literature and a
post war ethics of representation.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
