Beckett and Dialectics
Subtitle: Be It Something or Nothing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781350214361
Subjects: English literature
Description: "For a long time, analysis of Samuel Beckett's work has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations, yet this new volume exposes a different Beckett, whose work exposes and challenges central dialectical components- such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, and most crucially: negativity. Most excitingly, it offers new perspectives, not just on how the writer used shapes, types and forms of negation, but on the dialectical structure of a wide range of Beckettian phenomena, like the relation between voice and silence, and space and void, thus forming an important new element of Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, dialectics itself"--