Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Beckett's output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Beckett's work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It is within this philosophical context that the significance of Beckett's...
Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasiz...
This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural production of emotions. The 17 articles examine how emotions are represented and produced in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies.
This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural production of emotions. The 17 articles examine how emotions are represented and pr...