贝克特

章节摘录

　　Much criticism dealing with Beckett‘s work has elaborated upon his late-Modernist position where language is seen to struggle against silence. Yet the discourse of Beckett’s work， in drama and in prose， as it was received during his lifetime， was a continuous narrative construed from the obli-gation towards speech and， consequently， writing. This， of course， would always be tempered by the repeated Beckettian paradigm of impotence. Beckett‘s was an art of impending silence， coupled with the obligation to overcome that silence. This reading gives Beckett and Beckett’s work some-thing of a stoic dignity， as it survives against all odds.　　Yet what has bet:n rarely noted， despite the persistent return by Beckett‘s readers to early critical works as supposed manifestoes of intent， is that these odds have been deliberately weighted against Beckett， by Beckett himself. Where obligation and impotence work together， as Beckett first sets out in the Tbree dralogues witb Georges Dutbuit， we may perceive not only a struggle towards expression， but also one， equally powerful， against expression:　　……

书籍目录

List of contributorsPreface Chronology of Beckett’s lifeList of abbreviationsA note on titles1 An endgame of aesthetics：Beckett as essayist2 Beckett’s English fiction3 Three novels  and four nouvelles：giving up the ghost be born at last4 Waiting for Godot and Endgame：theatre as text5 Stages of identity：from Krapp’s last tape to play6 Beginning again：the post-narrative art of Texts for nothing and How it is7 The mediated Quixore：the radio and television plays，and film8 Dead heads：damnation-narration in the ‘dramaticules’9 Disabled figures：from the Residua to Stirrings still10 Beckett’s poems and verse translations or：Beckett and the limits of Poetry11 Beckett as director：the art of mastering failure12 Beckett’s bilingualism13 Beckett and the philosophersFurtber readingIndex of works by BeckettGeneral index

作者简介

《贝克特》是“剑桥文学指南”丛书中的一部。本书收集了欧美当代著名学者的13篇论文，分别从不同角度对贝克特各种体裁的作品及其特色展开了精辟的评析。本书涉及范围广泛，包括贝克特小说的风格，他对小说技巧的创新，他在戏剧中如何表现“死亡”这一主题，他对自己的剧作的导演构想，他的诗歌创作和诗歌翻译，他的哲学思想的来源，他采用英法双语写作的特色，以及他的影视广播剧的创作等。本书体现了近年来西方研究贝克特的最新成果，具有很高的学术参考价值。

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