| Beckett's Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity Contributor(s): Tranter, Rhys (Author) |
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ISBN: 3838211359 ISBN-13: 9783838211350 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Series: Samuel Beckett in Company |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945. |