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Autore: Gordon Lois G Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reading Godot / / Lois Gordon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource ([ix], 214 p.) ) : ill
Disciplina: 842/.914
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The First Forty Years, 1906-46: Origins of a Vision and Form -- TWO. Waiting for Godot: The Existential Dimension -- THREE. The Dream as a Manifestation of Unconscious Language and Emotion: The Conglomerative Effect -- FOUR. The Conglomerative Voice: Cain and Abel -- FIVE. The Language of Dreams: The Anatomy of the Conglomerative Effect -- SIX. ''The key word . . . is 'perhaps' '' -- SEVEN. Staging the Conglomerative Effect -- EIGHT. Crystallization of a Vision and Form -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: Waiting for Godot has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the twentieth century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention "Let's go," but this is inevitably followed by the direction "(They do not move.)." This is Beckett's poetic construct of the human condition. Lois Gordon, author of The World of Samuel Beckett, has written a fascinating and illuminating introduction to Beckett's great work for general readers, students, and specialists. Critically sophisticated and historically informed, it approaches the play scene by scene, exploring the text linguistically, philosophically, critically, and biographically. Gordon argues that the play portrays more than the rational mind's search for self and worldly definition. It also dramatizes Beckett's insights into human nature, into the emotional life that frequently invades rationality and liberates, victimizes, or paralyzes the individual. Gordon shows that Beckett portrays humanity in conflict with mysterious forces both within and outside the self, that he is an artist of the psychic distress born of relativism.
Titolo autorizzato: Reading Godot  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-73112-9
9786611731120
0-300-13202-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818253003321
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