Empty Figure on an Empty Stage - The Theatre of Samuel Beckett and His Generation

Les Essif is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Emptiness: Ontological, Theatrical, Theatro-psychic

2. Surrealist Inner Space: Theatre of the (Empty) Mind

3. Beckett's Pursuit of Emptiness: The Concentrated (Empty) Image Behind the Fragmented Story In the Late Plays

4. Avatars of the Hypersubjective Dramatic Character

5. The Hypersubject Avatar Manqué

6. TheHypersubjective Marionette-like Legacy of Pierrot: From the Social Space of the Commedia to the Empty Space of Nouveau Théâtre

Conclusion

Works Cited

About the author

Les Essif is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Summary

A study that considers the ways playwrights draw meaning from emptiness. It examines drama associated with non-realistic movement known as theatre of the absurd, focusing on the ways dramatists create an impression of emptiness not only on the stage but also in the body and mind of the central character.

Product details

• Authors: Les Essif, Essif Les
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2001
• EAN: 9780253338471
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33847-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Drama and Performance Studies; Drama & Performance Studies (H; Indiana University Press; Drama and Performance Studies; Drama & Performance Studies (H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies