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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… thesis examines the prose and drama of Samuel Beckett’s work to analyse the tropes of motherhood and female ageing in his oeuvre. The thesis is divided into two parts: part one investigates themes of misogyny, maternity and motherhood in a selection of the young Beckett’s writing. I consider …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… develops a philosophical framework for Samuel Beckett’s writings. It does so in the light of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s understanding of Eastern philosophy. Beckett read Schopenhauer closely in the 1930s, late 1970s and early 1980s, taking notes from his work in the so-called …
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Amongst Women”: O’Brien, Beckett, and The Magdalen “Réamhscéal
… Two major figures, Kate O’Brien and Samuel Beckett, produced novels—<em>Without My Cloak </em>and <em>Murphy, </em>respectively—that may be counted among the réamhscéala of the Magdalen texts that have been emerging since the early 1990s.</p>
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – registered shock experiences of the microscopic in prose fiction. Focusing on microscopes and the unfamiliar microworlds they reveal, I illustrate ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of …
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L'esthétique du silence dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
… than a mere absence of speech, serves in Samuel Beckett’s work as a scenic device of remarkable expressive power. In the wake of the upheavals caused by the world wars, language seems to have lost its ability to convey human experience. In this context, silence emerges as a radical artistic …
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Theatre of the Skull. Rough for Radio II by Samuel Beckett
This B.A. thesis examines Samuel Beckett’s portrayal of the artistic mind and the process of creativity in his radio play “Rough for Radio II”. The play as a piece of performance for radio will be briefly discussed. Then how Beckett highlights four different parts of the artist’s mind, turning each …
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The evolving role of philosophy within the novels of Samuel Beckett
<p>In recent years the study of Samuel Beckett's work has moved into increasingly specialised and archival areas. With the sheer wealth of work undertaken since the field began in the1960s and the availability of previously unobtainable materials this was somewhat of an inevitability. The sub-field …
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The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… presence in the world. In Joyce's wake, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Don DeLillo all produce texts that both engage with Joyce's novels and think carefully about the potential of the signature as a material object. My first chapter, 'James Joyce's Signatures', explores how …
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What matter who's speaking : Samuel Beckett and the author-function / Russell Smith.
Resists the notion of a subversive Beckett appropriated by the cultural mainstream, by tracing the discursive limits of avante-garde writing, and by exploring how Beckett paradoxically reinforced the traditional author-function even as he appeared to challenge it.
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… and Artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett” investigates modernist literary techniques for creating a female character with a voice who is also active and expressive in her sexuality. These canonical modernist authors found new ways to represent women as embodied, sexual, desired and …
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Metaphormosis: An Examination of Communication and Community in Barth, Beckett and Pynchon
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412151.pdf: 11392441 bytes, checksum: 1af8d3475c8b39802b8f7c067d6ae159 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot
… synthesis becomes almost impossible for Samuel Beckett, George Perec, and Maurice Blanchot, who encounter the disappearance of memory preserved in the narrative space. Not only in the face of the spatialization of memory in the increasing development of mass media, which Walter Benjamin …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… of the Absurd--more specifically Samuel Beckett in <em>Waiting for Godot</em> and Eugene Ionesco in <em>The Bald Soprano-</em>-are striving to convey directly to the audience their intuition of the human situation which is ultimately absurd.</p> <p>Such is the subject matter of their …
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« Le temps d’aspirer ce vide » : une lecture des textes narratifs brefs de Samuel Beckett
L’œuvre de Samuel Beckett, qui, au cours de six décennies, s’est déployée en deux langues dans un ensemble de genres différents (nouvelles, romans, pièces de théâtre, poèmes, scénarios), a fait l’objet d’une grande quantité de projets de recherche aussi variés que nombreux. Si l’abondante …
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Experiments in Fiction: The Poetic Visions of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Robert Coover
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:23:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7616159.PDF: 7046087 bytes, checksum: 05d42103ca36c0594093840dffca0801 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Mémoires d'une attente inachevée : le temps dans Malone Meurt, L'innommable et En Attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett
… três textos singulares da obra de Samuel Beckett: Malone meurt, L’Innommable e En attendant Godot. Tudo o que é assimilado, assim como refutado por Beckett, é convidado a entrar em cena no decorrer deste trabalho. Como via de acesso para a composisão da escritura becketiana, foi necessário …
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"CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO IT, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IT WAS?": A STUDY OF SOUND TECHNOLOGIES IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S ALL THAT FALL, EMBERS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE AND THAT TIME
… discusses the creative impasse into which Samuel Beckett fell after completing three of his most important works: Endgame, Waiting for Godot, and his novel trilogy (<italic>Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable</italic>). Particularly, this thesis examines Beckett's foray into radio drama as the …
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