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Beckett's words [electronic resource] : the promise of happiness in a time of mourning

Beckett's words [electronic resource] : the promise of happiness in a time of mourning

Material type
E-Book(소장)
Personal Author
Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-.
Title Statement
Beckett's words [electronic resource] : the promise of happiness in a time of mourning / David Kleinberg-Levin.
Publication, Distribution, etc
London :   Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.,   2015.  
Physical Medium
1 online resource (x, 318 p.).
ISBN
9781474216869 (electronic bk.) 1474216862 (electronic bk.) 9781474216883 (electronic bk.) 1474216889 (electronic bk.)
요약
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.
General Note
Title from e-Book title page.  
"Third volume in a trilogy"--Prologue.  
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index.
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Issued also as a book.  
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Happiness in literature.
주제명(개인명)
Beckett, Samuel,   1906-1989   Criticism and interpretation.  
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