Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints ofBeckett's negative status, not only within psychoanalytic literary criticism,but within Beckett criticism at large. CIARAN ROSS is Professor of Twentieth-Century English and Irish Literatureat the University of Strasbourg, France. He is Irish and was educated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His publications include 'Aux frontières du vide' and editor of 'Sub-versions: Trans-national Readings of Modern Irish Literature'. INDICE: Preface - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Setting up Shop in the Void. - Beckett's Negative Sublime - Family Matters - Playing, Dying and the Art of Being Absent - Incomprehensible Damnation - The Void onStage - Restyling the Ineffable Void - Conclusion: By Way of Neither - Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57518-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido