Into the Breach : Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature.

By:

Trezise, Thomas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400861354
1400861357

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Into the Breach : Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature.DDC classification:

843.914 20

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PQ2603.E378

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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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.

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