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

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서명/저자사항	Beckett's words [electronic resource]: the promise of happiness in a time of mourning / David Kleinberg-Levin.
개인저자	Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939- author.
발행사항	London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2015.
형태사항	1 online resource.
ISBN	9781474216869 1474216862 9781474216883 1474216889
일반주기	"Third volume in a trilogy"--Prologue.
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
주제명(개인명)	Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989. -- fast --
일반주제명	Happiness in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French Happiness in literature.
분류기호(DDC)	843.914
언어	영어
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