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Beckett and Nothing : Trying to Understand Beckett

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0719080193
ISBN-13 9780719080197
Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 3rd, 2010
Print length 296 Pages
Weight 486 grams
Dimensions 22.50 x 14.60 x 2.50 cms
Ksh 16,200.00
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The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations. -- .

Beckett and nothing invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which ''little nothings'' pervade the Beckett canon.

The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at ''nothing'' not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on ''nothing'' in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television.

The volume is a scholarly intervention in the fields of Beckett studies which offers its chapters as case studies to use in the classroom. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies.


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