Still : Samuel Beckett's quietism. / / Andy Wimbush

• Autore: Wimbush Andy
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 848.91409
• Soggetto topico: Quietism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished works by Samuel Beckett -- Other works -- Reference books -- Beckett's correspondents -- Introduction La vie très quiétiste -- Chapter 1 Dereliction into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 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 ; Afterword -- Bibliography -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished work by Samuel Beckett -- Secondary material on Beckett -- General works -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Still
• ISBN: 3-8382-7369-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817614903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Samuel Beckett in Company