Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett''s work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with...
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Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett''s work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett''s literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an analysis of hitherto unexplored phenomenological themes, such as nausea, immaturity and sleep, in B
Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Beckett and Phenomenology; 1. 'But What Was this Pursuit of Meaning, in this Indifference to Meaning?': Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'Meaning Creation'; 2. Phenomenologies of the Nothing: Democritus, Heidegger, Beckett; 3. Beckett and Sartre: The Nauseous Character of All Flesh; 4. 'Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order': Beckett, Merleau-Ponty and Perception; Part II: Beckett's Phenomenologies; 5. Between Art-world and Life-world: Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women
6. Murphydurke, or towards a Phenomenology of Immaturity (Reading Murphy with Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke)7. Bodily Histories: Beckett and the Phenomenological Approach to the Other; 8. What Remains of Beckett: Evasion and History; 9. Beckett's Ghost Dramas: Monitoring a Phenomenology of Sleep; 10. Living the Unnamable: Towards a Phenomenology of Reading; 11. The 'Distinct Context of Relevant Knowledge': Samuel Beckett's 'Yellow' and the Phenomenology of Annotation; Index; A; B ; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Beckett and phenomenology
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(c)2009
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Continuum, London
Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions...
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Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an analysis of hitherto unexplored phenomenological themes, such as nausea, immaturity and sleep, in Beckett'