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Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real

2019-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real by : Arka Chattopadhyay

Download or read book Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real written by Arka Chattopadhyay. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett's prose works, including How It Is, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.

Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze

2019-04-30 Performing Arts
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Release : 2019-04-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze by : Llewellyn Brown

Download or read book Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze written by Llewellyn Brown. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices—eyes, mirrors, windows—point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres—manifestations without origin—reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Beckett’s use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett’s creation. The theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan—in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts—offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence.

Nabarun Bhattacharya

2020-09-30 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-09-30
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Download or read book Nabarun Bhattacharya written by . This book was released on 2020-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the machine, the political question in Nabarun echoes significant contemporary issues, such as animal rights, global warming and techno-capitalism. This opens up the possibility of questioning the traditional paradigm of humanist values in a world of catastrophic and violent encounters such as nuclear war or holocaust, which keeps returning in Nabarun's works.

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe

2022-12-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-12-16
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Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe by : Michiko Tsushima

Download or read book Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe written by Michiko Tsushima. This book was released on 2022-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the post-catastrophic situations in the twentieth century, Beckett created characters who often seem to have been through an unknown catastrophe. Although the importance of catastrophe in Beckett has been noted sporadically, there has been no substantial attempt to discuss his aesthetics and work in relation to it. This collection will therefore serve as the first sustained study to explore the theme of catastrophe in Beckett and will be a highly significant contribution to Beckett studies. Chapter “Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Samuel Beckett as World Literature

2020-07-23 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-07-23
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Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett as World Literature by : Thirthankar Chakraborty

Download or read book Samuel Beckett as World Literature written by Thirthankar Chakraborty. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a preeminent author and dramatist of the 20th century. Samuel Beckett as World Literature brings together a wide range of international contributors to share their perspectives on Beckett's presence in countries such as China, Japan, Serbia, India and Brazil, among others, and to flesh out Beckett's relationship with postcolonial literatures and his place within the 'canon' of world literature.

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