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.
About the Author"Paul Stewart is Professor of Literature at the University of Nicosia. He is the author of two books on BeckettSex and Aesthetics in Samuel Becketts Works (Palgrave, 2011) and Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Becketts Disjunctions (Rodopi, 2006)and the series editor for Samuel Beckett in Company, published by ibidem Press. He has published widely on Beckett in such journals as The Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourdhui. He is also a creative writer (his novel Now Then was published by Armida in 2014) and a performer in theatre, television, and film."
Book InformationISBN 9783838208190
Author Llewellyn BrownFormat Paperback
Page Count 470
Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Weight(grams) 614g