Women and Ireland As Beckett''s Lost Others - Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

Informationen zum Autor RINA KIM is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Klappentext This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Zusammenfassung This study investigates the relationship between emotion! memory! exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework! this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein)! melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts! and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction Memories and Melancholia: Women and Ireland in Beckett's Early French Fiction The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works Conclusion: 'Stirrings Still' Notes Bibliography Index

List of contents

Introduction Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction Memories and Melancholia: Women and Ireland in Beckett's Early French Fiction The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works Conclusion: 'Stirrings Still' Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: R Kim, R. Kim, Rina Kim
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2010
• EAN: 9780230230477
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23047-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Gender Studies, History, Sociology, European History, Theatre Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Western Europe, Gender studies, gender groups, History, Modern, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature