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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice

Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice

Brown, Llewellyn
Rabaté, Jean-Michel

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Series: Samuel Beckett in Company

Literary CriticismGeneral Drama

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ISBN10: 3838208692
ISBN13: 9783838208695
Publisher: Ibidem Pr
Published: Sep 5 2017
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice's multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject's vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett's work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.

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