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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454374403321

Titolo

Borderless Beckett [[electronic resource] =] : Becket sans frontières : Tokyo 2006 / / edited by / édité par Minako Okamuro ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2008

ISBN

94-012-0580-9

1-4356-5490-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Collana

Samuel Beckett today ; ; 19

Disciplina

842.912

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES; INTRODUCTION; EIGHT WAYS OF LOOKING AT SAMUEL BECKETT; DISLOCATIONS: LIMITS AND LIMITLESSNESS; LITTÉRATURE ET PHILOSOPHIE : VOIX ET IMAGES EN QUESTION; Of CLOWNS AND ARTISTS; ANIMALS, HUMANS, STONES; TELEVISION'S "SAVAGE EYE": PHANTASMAGORICAL AND VIRTUAL BODIES; BECKETT'S BORDERLESS WORDS / PAROLES SANS FRONTIÈRES; WITNESSING; "SSSH" : SOUNDS AND SIGNS OF SILENCE; BORDERLESSNESS : LIFE AND DEATH / BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS; CONTRIBUTORS / LISTE DES AUTEURS

Sommario/riassunto

SBT/A 19 features selected papers from the Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontières Symposium held in Tokyo at Waseda University in 2006. The essays penned by eminent and young scholars from around the world examine the many ways Beckett's art crosses borders: coupling reality and dream, life and death, as in Japanese Noh drama, or transgressing distinctions between limits and limitlessness; humans, animals, virtual bodies, and stones; French and English; words and silence; and the received frameworks of philosophy and aesthetics. The highlight of the volume is the contribution by Nobel La