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Trezise, Thomas.

Into the Breach : Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (189 pages) - Princeton Legacy Library . - Princeton legacy library. .

Cover ; Contents; Preface; Introduction the Breach; 1. Dispossession; 2. Impersonality; 3. Error; Conclusion the Ends of Literature; Index.

Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Beckett's trilogy of novels with the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a ""general economy"" of signification that both produces and dispossesses the phenomenological self. Trezise shows how Beckett's work defines literature as an instance within this economy and in so doing challenges traditional.

ISBN: 9781400861354 (electronic bk.) 1400861357 (electronic bk.)

Source: 22573/ctt7395cr JSTOR

Subjects--Personal Names:
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Fictional works.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Molloy.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Malone meurt.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Innommable.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Innommable.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Malone meurt.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Molloy.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Fictional works.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Innommable (Beckett, Samuel)
Malone meurt (Beckett, Samuel)
Molloy (Beckett, Samuel)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Criticism and interpretation.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PQ2603.E378

Dewey Class. No.: 843.914