By Ulrika Maude, Matthew Feldman
Existentialism and poststructuralism have supplied the 2 major theoretical methods to Samuel Beckett's paintings. those influential philosophical pursuits, even if, owe an exceptional debt to the phenomenological culture. This quantity, with contributions by way of significant foreign students, examines the exceptional in Beckett's literary worlds, evaluating and contrasting his writing with key figures together with Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an research of hitherto unexplored phenomenological subject matters, similar to nausea, immaturity and sleep, in Beckett's paintings. via an exploration of particular thinkers and Beckett's personal inventive process, it bargains the 1st sustained and complete account of Beckettian phenomenology.
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