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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Samuel Beckett"”.
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
This 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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L'esthétique du silence dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
… more 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 …
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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
… its 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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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… The dramatists 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 …
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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
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Mémoires d'une attente inachevée : le temps dans Malone Meurt, L'innommable et En Attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett
… compreende 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 …
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Shadow and babble : a study of imagery and narrative voice in the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett, from Murphy to The unnamable
… is concerned with a detailed examination of Samuel Beckett's prose fiction, from his earliest important writing up until the completion of the last book of his Trilogy. Although these works, widely recognized as being of seminal importance in the literary history of our time, have attracted a …
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Dantean reverberations: four readers of Dante in the Twentieth century: a study on the Dantes of Primo Levi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney
… chapters are about the presence of Dante in Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. In Beckett, a network of Dantean inclusions shows how Dante’s presence can be fertile, controversial, and yet apparently discarded. The last chapter discusses Seamus Heaney’s Dantisms and especially the question of …
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Form and Formlessness in Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction and Beckett's Molloy
A dolgozatom Virginia Woolf és Samuel Beckett műveinek elemzését és összehasonlítását foglalja magában, társadalomkritkikai, művészettörténeti és fenomenológiai szempontból. Az összehasonlítással azt kívánom bemutatni, hogy a két szerző hogyan bontja le a karteziánus gondolkodás kétosztatúságait.
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"""To Know if There Is Something or Nothing"": The Relationship Between Fiction and Reality in the Works of Stephane Mallarme, Samuel Beckett, Louis -Rene Des Forets and J. M. G. Le Clezio"
Through the work of Stephane Mallarme, Samuel Beckett, Louis-Rene des Forets and J. M. G. Le Clezio, this dissertation offers a reflection on the relationship between fiction and reality. The first chapter explores how Mallarme deconstructs fiction and analyses its effects on the readers to convey …
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Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility
… as described by Camus, and later expressed by Samuel Beckett, also the role of the masculine body's physicality within ritualized actions.
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The Adventures of Frank, Gordon, and Some Other People Too
… The influence of Irish authors, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Flan O’Brien, are noted as well as short story author, Donald Barthelme. The author claims several film styles and television comedy genre, found in the likes of Monty Python and The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, as the multiple …
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Samuel Beckett's Theory of Repetition
<p>The thesis explores playwright, Samuel Beckett, and his use of repetition within four of his plays. The way in which repetition is discussed and shown in his plays displays Beckett’s own theories about repetition such as the futility and meaningless of life that repetition brings about, how …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… West, Olive Moore, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Peter Nichols, I show that scientific and political concerns about intelligence and intellectual disability animated literary approaches to the relationships among subject, society, and state in the midcentury. The …
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Stain Upon the Silence: Samuel Beckett’s Deconstructive Inventions
… in experience.</p> <p>Using the early plays of Samuel Beckett, this research explores deconstruction as a method to create messages. This new perspective transports deconstruction from a set of theoretical concepts into basic assumptions that enhance communication. This study suggests that …
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