Research Catalog

Title

Deleuze and Beckett / edited by S. E. Wilmer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Audrone Žukauskaite, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilmer, S. E.
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė, 1968-

Description

xii, 253 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays illuminating similarities between the philosophies and practices of Deleuze and Beckett. The contributors include some of the leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists in the world, and their essays address different ideas and concepts of Deleuzian philosophy as well as a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, stage and television plays, and film work. The book considers Deleuze's interpretation of Beckett's work and demonstrates that Deleuzian concepts and ideas can be usefully applied to Beckett's texts in order provide a greater understanding of Beckett's characters and their journeys. Deleuze's philosophy helps us to recognize that what has been seen as the private territory of despair, loneliness, and emptiness in Beckett's work masks a world of flow and fluctuation that expresses multiple and heterogeneous possibilities. "--

Subjects

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
• Literature > Philosophy
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
• Theater > Philosophy
• Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Audrone Žukauskaite and S.E. Wilmer -- Part I. Difference, Becoming Multiplicity: 1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze / Anthony Uhlmann; 2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze / S.E. Gontarski; 3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible / Audrone Žukauskaite -- Part II. Psychoanalysis and Sociality: 4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett's Gallery of Moribunds / Benjamin Keatinge; 5. 'Till ooze again and on': Textual Desire and the Subject's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze, Lacan) / Isabelle Ost; 6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett's Sociendum / Timothy S. Murphy -- Part III. Space, Time and Memory: 7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson / David Addyman; 8. The Problem of the Any-Space-Whatever between Deleuze's Cinema and Beckett's Prose / Garin Dowd; 9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan's Krapp's Last Tape and Steenbeckett / Colin Gardner -- Part IV. Theatre and Performance: 10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinkers / Ruben Borg; 11. A Crystal-Theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre's Crystalline Potential / Daniel Koczy; 12. 'I switch off': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event / Arka Chattopadhyay.

Call Number

JFD 15-3604

ISBN

• 9781137481139 (hardback)
• 1137481137 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2015005436
• 40025127580

OCLC

903423517

Title

Deleuze and Beckett / edited by S. E. Wilmer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Audrone Žukauskaite, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wilmer, S. E., editor.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, 1968- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40025127580

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3604