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Silence Nowhen

Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett

Erschienen am 20.06.2013
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ISBN/EAN: 9781433122477
Sprache: Englisch
Format (T/L/B): 21.0 x 14.0 cm
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Einband: Gebunden

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The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Becketts work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Becketts language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust - laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno. By doing so, Chesney addresses how Becketts works remain true, to the end, to a minimalist impulse that is essentially modernist or late modernist without giving over to the rising dominant of postmodernism. Chesney delineates a sigetics - a discourse of silence whose main strategies in Beckett are reticence and ellipsis - and through studies of Godot, Endgame, Krapps Last Tape, Happy Days, the Trilogy, Company, and other works, teases out of Becketts minimal aesthetics a Beckettian minimal ethics. In brief glimmers in his texts Beckett provides proleptic hints at reconciliation and the possibility of ethical life that are neither theological nor mystical, but that minimally hold to an alternate rationality from that of the reified world of exchange and catastrophe.

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