Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others - Beyond Mourning and Melancholia (Hardcover)

Opening up contemporary debates about emotion in social and historical contexts, Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and language. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's prose and drama, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often Beckett's objects of loss. This study primarily focuses on Beckett's exploitation of ambivalent yet conscious use of psychoanalytic concepts in his works on an aesthetic level. It also addresses the impact of one of the key events in Beckett's life, his self-imposed exile, on his poetics of grieving. By exploring Beckett's ambiguous representations of his homeland - Ireland - and women in general and the mother in particular throughout his oeuvre, this study unveils his uneasy relationship with them - an anxious part of his identity.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	R. Kim
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-23047-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-23047-4
Barcode:	9780230230477

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