Can I read Beckett and Dialectics : Be It Something or Nothing on EtoBox?

Beckett and Dialectics : Be It Something or Nothing by Eva Ruda is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beckett and Dialectics : Be It Something or Nothing about?

For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity. With contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, Beckett and Dialectics not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the shapes, types, and forms of negation – as in the all-pervasive figures of 'nothing', 'no', 'null', and 'not' – but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout Beckett's work are structured in their use of negativity. These include the relationships between voice and silence, space and void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and repetition and transformation. This original analysis lends an important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, to dialectics itself.

Who reads Beckett and Dialectics : Be It Something or Nothing?

Author

Eva Ruda

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350136830

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism