Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism - Humility and Humiliation

Explores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett Offers the first book-length comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett Develops a literary theory of humility and humiliation concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology Explores the relation between negative affect, ethics and aesthetics Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett share an imperfect likeness. Between them is a common interest in states of abjection, shame and suffering and possible responses to such states. Tracing the relation between negative affect, ethics, and aesthetics, Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism demonstrates how these two major modernists recuperate the affinity between humility and humiliation concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Other Becketts
Release date:	July 2023
Authors:	Rick de Villiers
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-7904-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4744-7904-9
Barcode:	9781474479042

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