Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

Laura Salisbury

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

Samuel Beckett

Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

Laura Salisbury

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748647491

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Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representation

Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can these two statements sit together?

Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama, and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose, and the late plays, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the same time, opening up a space for how it ought to be.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Critical Joking: The Early Prose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
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Chapter 3 Power Playing in Endgame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 3, 2012
ISBN: 9780748647491