Into the Breach: Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature

by Thomas Trezise

Book Overview

Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Beckett's trilogy of novels with the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a "general economy" of signification that both produces and dispossesses the phenomenological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691604541
• ISBN13: 9780691604541
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"