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Samuel Beckett and the terror of literature /

Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Langlois, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Other Becketts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Terror in philosophy, politics and literature
  • 1. The terror of thinking in The Unnamable
  • 2. The beginning (again) and ending (again) of terror in Texts for Nothing
  • 3. The writing of How It Is in the paratactic delay of terror
  • 4. The terror of passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho
  • Coda : Literature at the turning point of terror.