Women and Ireland as Beckett's lost others: beyond mourning and melancholia

This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and womenare often the objects of loss. INDICE: Introduction - Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction - Memories and Melancholia: Women and Ireland in Beckett's Early French Fiction - The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama - Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: KleinianApproaches - The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works - Conclusion: 'Stirrings Still' - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23047-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés