商品簡介
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.
作者簡介
Rhys Tranter teaches modern and contemporary literature at Cardiff University. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, trauma, and ethics, among others. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, and he is coeditor of The Beckett Circle, the official newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society. At RhysTranter.com, he asks writers and academics questions about contemporary issues in art, literature, philosophy, and popular culture.
