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<p>Death seems indisputably central to Samuel Beckett's writing and its reception, and the essays in Beckett and Death read his work, including key poems, plays, short stories and novels, in this context. The collection explores the various themes of deathliness by focusing on tropes of mortality and death in relation to the writer's entire oeuvre, using three main approaches. The first situates Beckett's thinking about death in his own writing and reading processes, particularly with respect to manuscript drafts and letters. The second highlights the Beckettian concept of the 'death of the subject' which can be related through certain dominant post-structural readings of Beckett's writing to the textual challenge exemplified by the The Unnamable. The final approach explores psychology and death, with an emphasis on deathly states like catatonia and schizophrenia which are such recurrent features in Beckett's creative texts. Beckett and Death thus offers both cutting-edge readings of the theme of mortality and a unique insight into its relationship to many aspects of this celebrated writer's literary works.</p>

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Author

Steven Barfield, Matthew Feldman, Philip Tew

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472542939

Category

nonfiction