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## Provides a sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terror __Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature__ addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett’s major post-1945 works in prose: __The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said__, and __Worstward Ho__. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett’s, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance – ethical, ontological, and political – to what speaks in Beckett’s texts. ## Key Features * Articulates a novel conceptual framework through the language of terror for reading Beckett’s major post-1945 works in prose, all the while engaging with key thinkers in the discourse of contemporary critical theory like Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alain Badiou * Provides for the first time a thorough articulation of the significance of terro
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- Author
- Christopher Langlois
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474419017
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance