02351nam 2200565 450 99655236860331620230426211627.01-5261-2118-210.7765/9781526121189(CKB)4100000007277013(NjHacI)994100000007277013(DE-B1597)659140(DE-B1597)9781526121189(EXLCZ)99410000000727701320230426d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSamuel Beckett and the primacy of love /John Robert KellerManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2002.1 online resource (x, 226 pages)0-7190-6313-2 1-84779-556-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries and Proust -- 2. No Endon sight: Murphy's misrecognition of love -- 3. This emptied heart: Watt's unwelcome home -- 4. A strange situation: self-entrapment in Waiting for Godot -- 5. The dispeopled kingdom: the hidden self in Beckett's short fiction -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.This study considers the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work. John Keller explores the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing, believing the texts embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goodness.Literature, ModernPsychological aspectsLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismBeckettian texts.Samuel Beckett.early experience.internal dialogue.internal goodness.love.mother.narrative-self.popularity.primal sense.Literature, ModernPsychological aspects.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809.93353Keller John Robert950921NjHacINjHaclBOOK996552368603316Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love2149846UNISA