Beckett and Authority
Subtitle: The Uses of Cliche
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780230008335
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Beckett, Samuel - Prose & Criticism; Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Authority in literature; Philosophy in literature; Stupidity in literature
Description: This work investigates the relationship between verbal cliché, memory and authority in Beckett's prose and theatre, and argues that by consciously manipulating the language of clichés, Beckett challenges intellectual, social and religious authority and argues for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Deleuze.