| Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice Contributor(s): Brown, Llewellyn (Author), Rabaté, Jean-Michel (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 3838208692 ISBN-13: 9783838208695 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $43.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Series: Samuel Beckett in Company |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (1.20 lbs) 470 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice's multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject's vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett's work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel: - Jean-Michel Rabate (PhD, Literature, University of Paris VIII) is Professor of English and Comparative Litersture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), The Future of Theory (Wiley, 2008), Crimes of the Future: Theory and its Global Reproduction (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Ghosts of Modernity (Florida, 2010), The Ethics of the Lie (Other Press, 2008), and Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature (Palgrave, 2002). |