Beckett''s Fiction - In Different Words

Informationen zum Autor Leslie Hill is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His many publications include Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing (Continuum, 2012), Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (Notre Dame UP, 2010) The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Derrida (CUP, 2007), Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (OUP, 2001), Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (Routledge, 1997) and Beckett's Fiction (CUP, 1990). Klappentext This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Zusammenfassung This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary literary theory! the book rejects the idea that Beckett is an author committed to expressing a particular view of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Murphy's law; 2. The loss of species; 3. The trilogy translated; 4. Duality, repetition, aporia; 5. Fables of genealogy; 6. Naming the body; 7. Experiment and failure; 8. Writing remainders: Indifferent words.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Hill, Leslie (University of Warwick) Hill, Hill Leslie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521110563
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11056-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies