Samuel Beckett and testimony
By: David Houston Jones
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230275768
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unspeakability in Beckett in relation to testimonial expression and the problems of knowledge which arise in recent theoretical conceptions of testimony and the archive"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Siting testimony; title: Testimony and the voice of species; title: Iconophilia; title: Archiving Beckett; title: Information and the inhuman; title: Conclusion: Beyond the archive?.