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Wimbush Andy |
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Still : Samuel Beckett's quietism. / / Andy Wimbush |
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Berlin, Germany : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Samuel Beckett in Company |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished works by Samuel Beckett -- Other works -- Reference books -- Beckett's correspondents -- Introduction La vie très quiétiste -- Chapter 1 Dereliction into Literature: Quietism and Beckett's 1930s -- Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism -- Arthur Schopenhauer's Quietism -- Beckett and Schopenhauer -- Áskesis, Mysticism, and Belief -- André Gide and Dostoevskian Quietism -- Christian Mysticism -- Quietism and Hellenistic Philosophy -- A Basis for Quietism -- Humanistic Quietism -- Abject Self-Referring Quietism -- Geulincx and Quietism? -- Quietism continues -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 A Sufferer of My Pains: Murphy and the Little World -- Tat tvam asi -- The Alyosha Mistake -- Luciferian Concentration -- The Need for Brotherhood -- Into the Big World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Remnants of a Pensum: Decay and quietist aesthetics from Dream of Fair to Middling Women to Molloy -- Moran's Prayer -- Molloy and the Contemplative Life -- The Thing in Ruins -- The Fundamental Unheroic -- The Tranquillity of Decomposition -- Moran Checks the Rot -- Moran's Putrefaction -- Quietism, Violence, and Contradiction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Sage Under the Bo: How It Is, Ernst Haeckel and Beckett's (German) Buddhism -- Beckett and Buddhism: A Biographical and Critical History -- The Western Religious Epic in How It Is -- Darwin and the Natural Order -- The Eastern Sage -- Victims and Tormentors -- The End of Suffering? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 |
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so much short of blessed nothing: Salvation, rebirth and the late prose -- Beckett's novel 'series' -- Proustian Rebirth -- Rebirth in the Trilogy -- The Mystic Paradox -- True refuge: from Ping to Lessness -- Unhappily no: Company -- The One True End to Time and Grief: Stirrings Still -- Conclusion. |
Afterword -- Bibliography -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished work by Samuel Beckett -- Secondary material on Beckett -- General works -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Andy Wimbush argues that quietism-a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness-is a key to understanding Samuel Beckett's artistic vision. Using Beckett's published and archival material, he shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism and turned it into a new aesthetic. |
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