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Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination

Mark Byron, University of Sydney
October 2020
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    Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways. By deploying figures of ruination and excavation with etymological self-awareness, Beckett's late prose narratives – Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho – comprise a late-career meditation on the stratigraphic layerings of language and memory over an extended writing career. These layers comprise an embodied record of writing in their allusions to literary history and to Beckett's own oeuvre.

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    October 2020
    Paperback
    9781108738965
    75 pages
    230 × 150 × 10 mm
    0.14kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. 'Saxa loquuntur!'
    • 2. Company: Mining Beckett's Literary Memory
    • 3. Ill Seen Ill Said: Turning Deasil Among the Cromlechs
    • 4. Wordly Corrasion in Worstward Ho
    • Conclusion: The Masonry of Representation.
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    • Mark Byron , University of Sydney