Beckett's creatures : art of failure after the Holocaust /
"In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first fu...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- What is a Beckettian Creature?
- Last Human and Becoming-Animal
- Concepts of the Creature and Creaturely Life
- Beckett After 1945
- Testimony: Bearing Witness to the Event and Self. 'Impossibility of Expressing': Art of Failure and Lacuna of Testimony
- Fallibility and Dissociation
- (In)sovereign Author-Narrators
- Obligation to Testify: Mechanics, Enunciation, Ruins
- Testimony of Fiction
- Power: Master-Servant Relationships. Exercising Writing: Fascist Regime Against Liberal Art
- Watt the Fungible and Knott There: Objectified Servant and Absent Master
- 'A vague supplication': Melancholy in Waiting for Godot
- Master-Servant Context: The Holocaust and the Jewish Creature
- Biopolitical Struggles: Territory and Custody
- Humour: Failure and Degradation. Humour in Failure
- Textual Performances
- Words and Flesh in Endgame
- Metanarrative Tragicomedy
- 'turd waiting for the flush': Gallows Humour
- Survival: Incompleteness and Continuation. 'oh all to end': Beckettian Stirrings Still
- Creaturely 'Undeadness'
- Repetition and Performance
- Forms of Activity and Stasis in Molloy
- 'finish dying': Death Without Death in Molloy
- Epilogue.