Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love /

This study considers the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work. John Keller explores the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing, believing the texts embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Keller, John Robert
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989. Love in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature > France. Psychoanalysis and literature > Ireland. Literature and literary studies. Literature: history and criticism. Literary studies: plays and playwrights. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French. LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama. Psychoanalysis and literature. France. Ireland. Multi-User. Electronic books. Computer network resources. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Anthologies.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preliminaries and Proust
No Endon sight: Murphy's misrecognition of love
This emptied heart: Watt's unwelcome home
A strange situation: self-entrapment in Waiting for Godot
The dispeopled kingdom: the hidden self in Beckett's short fiction.