Beckett and Poststructuralism
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 1, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521052436
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; French; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: To begin to test the kinds of interaction between literature, philosophy and history with regard to Beckett's Trilogy, it might be useful to juxtapose three texts: a work of literature (Samuel Beckett's Molloy), a work of philosophy attempting to describe the 'history of the present' (Michel Foucaults's Discipline and Punish) and an historical documentary film (Marcel Ophuls's The Sorrow and the Pity).