Beckett’s Art of Mismaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beckett’s Art of Mismaking write by Leland de la Durantaye. This book was released on 2016-01-04. Beckett’s Art of Mismaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.
Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Beckett’s Art of Mismaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beckett’s Art of Mismaking write by Leland de la Durantaye. This book was released on 2016-01-04. Beckett’s Art of Mismaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett’s novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean? In a lively and enlivening study of a singular creative nature, Leland de la Durantaye helps us better understand Beckett’s strangeness and the notorious difficulties it presents. He argues that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, nor even to reconnect with the child or the savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future. Whether called “creative willed mismaking,” “logoclasm,” or “word-storming in the name of beauty,” Beckett meant by these terms an art that attacks language and reason, unity and continuity, art and life, with wit and venom. Beckett’s Art of Mismaking explains Beckett’s views on language, the relation between work and world, and the interactions between stage and page, as well as the motives guiding his sixty-year-long career—his strange decision to adopt French as his literary language, swerve from the complex novels to the minimalist plays, determination to “fail better,” and principled refusal to follow any easy path to originality.
Samuel Beckett's Art
Samuel Beckett's Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samuel Beckett's Art write by John Fletcher. This book was released on 1967. Samuel Beckett's Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dying for Time
Dying for Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dying for Time write by Martin Hägglund. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Dying for Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hägglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.
Twilight of the Literary
Twilight of the Literary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight of the Literary write by Terry Cochran. This book was released on 2005-03-15. Twilight of the Literary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Western thought, the modern period signals a break with stagnant social formations, the advent of a new rationalism, and the emergence of a truly secular order, all in the context of an overarching globalization. In The Twilight of the Literary, Terry Cochran links these developments with the rise of the book as the dominant medium for recording, preserving, and disseminating thought. Consequently, his book explores the role that language plays in elaborating modern self-understanding. It delves into what Cochran calls the "figures of thought" that have been an essential component of modern consciousness in the age of print technology--and questions the relevance of this "print-bound" thinking in a world where print no longer dominates. Cochran begins by examining major efforts of the eighteenth century that proved decisive for modern conceptions of history, knowledge, and print. After tracing late medieval formulations of vernacular language that proved crucial to print, he analyzes the figures of thought in print culture as they proceed from the idea of the collective spirit (the "people"), an elaboration of modern history. Cochran reconsiders basic texts that, in his analysis, reveal the underpinnings of modernity's formation--from Dante and Machiavelli to Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin. Moving from premodern models for collective language to competing theories of history, his work offers unprecedented insight into the means by which modern consciousness has come to know itself.
