Research Catalog

Title

Silence nowhen : late modernism, minimalism, and silence in the work of Samuel Beckett / Duncan McColl Chesney.

Author

Chesney, Duncan McColl, 1974-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, 2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 248 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; vol. 217

Uniform Title

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; v. 217.

Subject

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989
• Silence in literature
• Minimalism (Literature)
• Modernism (Literature)
• Stille Motiv
• Schweigen Motiv
• Minimalismus Literatur
• Moderne

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

Contents

1. Talk about Silence -- Reticence, Ellipsis, Sigetics -- War and Silence -- Les lntarissables -- 2. Silence Nowhen -- Dante ... Descartes ... Joyce/Proust: Beckett, Silence, and Tradition -- Excursus. The Silence of Tradition: Beckett and the Irish Novel -- Beckett & (Irish) Co. -- 3. The Abstract, the Incessant, the Neutral -- Beckett l'Abstracteur -- Qui parle (et se tait) clans les livres de Samuel Beckett? -- 4. Beckett, Minimalism, and the Question of Postmodernism -- Postmodernism as American Avant-Garde -- Greenberg's Modernism -- Beckett and Painting -- Minimalism -- Lateness -- 5. Meremost Minimal Moralia -- Introduction -- An Attempt to Read Adorno's Endspiel -- After the Endgame -- Ethical Modernism -- Meremost Minimal Moralia

ISBN

• 9781433122477
• 1433122472
• 9781453911020 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013003300

OCLC

• ocn829999584
• 829999584
• SCSB-1795367

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library