The Empty Too : Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett.
Başlık:
The Empty Too : Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett.
Yazar:
Broomfield, Arthur.
ISBN:
9781443863001
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (112 pages)
İçerik:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- THE REAL AND THE OTHER FROM PLATO,THROUGH DERRIDA, TO BECKETT -- FILM: LET'S LOOK AT THE TEXT -- WEIGHING THE WAIT IN WAITING FOR GODOT -- HOW IT IS IN HOW IT IS -- THE WORST WORD IS BESTIN WORSTWARD HO -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Özet:
This engaging and often controversial study of Beckett's works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence in Worstward Ho, this rigorous reading of Beckett's key texts claims that what we perceive in the existential world can never be proved to exist, while language survives scrutiny, and will 'go on' to become the real, once it has been divested of its connection to the corporeal. This book draws on the major philosophers to support this thesis, but ...
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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