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Beckett's Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust by Joseph Anderton (Hardcover, 2016)

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In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama, particularly texts from the middle period, including Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Anderton explicates four arenas of creaturely life in Beckett. Each chapter attends to a particular theme - testimony, power, humour and survival - to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that precipitate the creaturely state of suspension. Drawing on the writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida to explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures of creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that bespeaks the provisional nature of the human. The result is a provocative examination of the indirect relationship between art and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour and survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning after Auschwitz.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781474234535
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221815559

Product Key Features

Book Title
Beckett's Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust
Author
Joseph Anderton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
264 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
458g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Joseph Anderton
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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