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Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity By Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity by Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)


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Offering innovative readings of Beckett's post-war prose and theatre, Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity examines the philosophical and historical development of Beckett's writing in terms of a key concept: aporia. It will be a key resource for graduates and scholars interested in Beckett, literary theory, and European literature.

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity Summary

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity by Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity Reviews

' the book injects new energy into well-rehearsed debates, intervening in conversations on the primacy of gesture and rhythm in Beckett, on the correspondences between his experiments in drama and narrative, and on the irreducible distance between bodily existence and self-relation.' Ruben Borg, Journal of Modern Literature

About Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Derval Tubridy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-director of the London Beckett Seminar at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Council member of the British Association of Irish Studies. Author of Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (2001), she has published widely on modernism and Irish studies, and has received funding from the Fulbright Commission, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. She works on modern and contemporary literature, performance and the visual arts with a particular focus on the intersections between language, materiality and process.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The old credentials; 2. This cursed first person; 3. No knowing not said; 4. Whom else; 5. Rare flickers; Conclusion.

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NPB9781108483247
9781108483247
1108483240
Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity by Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2018-07-05
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