LEADER 04044oam 2200505 c 450 001 9910959743103321 005 20251102090541.0 010 $a9783838270258 010 $a3838270258 024 3 $a9783838270258 035 $a(CKB)4340000000252637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276166 035 $a(Perlego)773138 035 $a(ibidem)9783838270258 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000252637 100 $a20251102d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgainst Reason$eSchopenhauer, Beckett and the Aesthetics of Irreducibility$fAnthony Barron, Matthew Feldman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 380 pages) 311 08$a9783838210254 311 08$a3838210255 330 $aAnthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett?s critical and creative writings. He shows that Beckett?s aesthetic preoccupations are consonant with some of Schopenhauer?s seminal arguments regarding the arational basis of artistic composition and appreciation and the impotence of reason in human affairs. While Beckett?s critical writings are, in places, formidably opaque, this work examines the ways in which such texts can be elucidated when their intertextual affinities with Schopenhauer?s arguments are revealed. Using Schopenhauer?s thought as a presiding interpretative framework, Barron demonstrates how the widespread presence of philosophical and theological ideas in Beckett?s creative texts signifies less about his personal convictions than it does about his authorial aims. He thereby highlights the ways in which discursive ideas were appropriated and manipulated by Beckett for purely literary ends. A central contention of this book is that to judge the place of ideas within Beckett?s art, we should ignore questions of their theoretical persuasiveness and consider their role as purely aesthetic devices, the value of which is revealed in terms of the existential impact they have upon his characters. In each of the chapters that deal with Beckett?s fiction, Barron underscores the artistically energizing tensions that exist between the concepts that Beckett?s characters invoke in their attempts to comprehend the import of their experiences and their conative and affective tribulations which invariably prove resistant to such analysis. Here the means by which such conceptual aporias engender semantic potentialities underpin an exploration of Beckett?s creative assimilation of rational discourse. While the focus of this publication is upon Beckett?s early and middle fiction, which was composed at a time when the relationship between the chaos of quotidian ordeals and the value of rational thought became most acutely relevant for him, numerous cross-references to his dramatic and poetical works are provided in order to highlight the overall significance of these issues within his oeuvre. 330 1 $a?This is a much-needed study on Beckett?s lifelong engagement with Schopenhauer, thoroughly informed by recent discoveries in Beckett studies. It proves beyond doubt that Schopenhauer remained Beckett?s most intimate creative conversation partner, not just in terms of metaphysics, but also in terms of imagery and verbal details.??Professor Erik Tonning, University of Bergen; Author of Samuel Beckett?s Abstract Drama: Works for Stage and Screen 1962?1985 (2007) 606 $aSamuel Beckett 606 $aSchopenhauer 606 $aphilosophy 615 4$aSamuel Beckett 615 4$aSchopenhauer 615 4$aphilosophy 676 $a111.85092 700 $aBarron$b Anthony$4aut$01710620 702 $aFeldman$b Matthew$4aui 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959743103321 996 $aAgainst reason$94101417 997 $aUNINA