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Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first
sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and
productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between
prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and
continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis
demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages,
genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse
outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's
extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and
material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we
mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's
concern with words must be read through the information economy in
which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides
the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the
posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject
cathected within differential mechanisms of power.
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the
legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a
unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen.
The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on
contemporary arthe is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working
alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and
beyond. The volume explores Becketts formal experiments in drama,
prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of
modernisms theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like
Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and
pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of
literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential
reassessment of Becketts work. Perceiving Becketts ongoing
importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices,
dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a
completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian
themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Becketts remains, as
it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
Traces the history of the Peppercanister Press and illuminates the
evolving development of Kinsella's ambitious poetic project. The
poems are discussed chronologically and the clear interpretations
are accompanied by drawings and reproductions of covers from the
original publications.
Traces the history of the Peppercanister Press and illuminates the
evolving development of Kinsella's ambitious poetic project. The
poems are discussed chronologically and the clear interpretations
are accompanied by drawings and reproductions of covers from the
original publications.
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