Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature / / Christopher Langlois.

Provides a sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terrorSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experien...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Other Becketts : OTBE
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics and Literature
  • 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable
  • 2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing
  • 3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror
  • 4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho
  • Coda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror
  • References
  • Index