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Impotence and making in Samuel Beckett's trilogy Molloy, Malone dies and the unnamable and How it is / Joanne Shaw

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Shaw, Joanne, 1947-
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Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
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1 online resource (200 pages).
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English.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Impotent Bodies -- Impotent Creatures -- Impotent Gods -- Making Bodies -- Making Creatures -- Making Gods -- Impotent Words -- Wasted Words -- Impotent Writer -- Making Words -- Human Words -- Divine Words -- Womb or Tomb? -- Grotesque and the Sublime -- Ambiguous Gods -- Killing Words? -- Negative Word Saying -- Silence and Music -- Murmurs, Mud and Sardines: Uncertain Beginnings -- Voicing the Body -- Writing the Body -- Repeating the Self -- Cyclical Makings and Unmakings -- All of Humanity or Only Self?
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Annotation "Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy" is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett's prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of 'impotence' and 'making' by showing Beckett's quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators' images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators' images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett's narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.
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9789042029743 (electronic bk.)
9042029749 (electronic bk.)
9789042029736 (Paper)
9042029730 (Paper)
1282556401
9781282556409
9786612556401
6612556404
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index.
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