Creative Involution : : Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze / / S.E. Gontarski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Gontarski, S.E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Other Becketts : OTBE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations

An original philosophical approach to one of the 20th century's most important literary figuresCreative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze focuses on a force, on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett intersects with such preoccupations of time as a double headed monster," of memory and multiplicity, of being and becoming that continue in an involutionary turn through the work of Gilles Deleuze.Key FeaturesDeploys new critical approaches (e.g., a return to Bergson and Bergsonism)Addresses underexplored works in the Beckett canonPresents new critiques of representation and Beckett's relationship to philosophyAttentive to critical thinking around affect theory and/in literature."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Other Becketts: Series Preface -- Abbreviations for Works by Samuel Beckett -- Acknowledgements -- 1 'All the Dead Voices': A Preface -- 2 'A Mixed Choir' from The Ditch of Astonishment: An Introduction -- Anteriors -- 3 The Invention of the Modern: A Symbiotic Remapping -- 4 'Thought Thinks in its Own Right': A. A. Luce, Samuel Beckett and Bergson's Doctrine of Failure -- Interiors -- 5 Towards a Creative Involution -- 6 'What it is to Have Been': Movement, Multiplicity and Representation -- 7 Beyond the Shadow: Acts of Unceasing Creation -- 8 A Theatre of Deterritorialization and the Questions We Ask -- Posteriors -- 9 Becoming Degree Zero: Authors Vanishing into the Zone of Imperceptibility -- Index