Beckett’s Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity: Trauma, Language & Subjectivity: 4 (Samuel Beckett in Company Seri)

by RhysTranter (Author), Paul Stewart (Series Editor), Dr. Rhys Tranter (Author), Rhys Tranter (Author)

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  Paperback
  2018

  $65.60

  This book re-examines the Nobel laureate's post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.