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Part of the book series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century (NIBTFC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"When he was a war prisoner in Germany, Emmanuel Levinas was entertaining dreams of becoming a famous novelist. Fifield's fascinating study explains why, had he written the novels he was planning, they would have looked more like Beckett's texts than like Proust's: faces letting an infinite otherness shine through them, infinitesimal traces of traces, an 'otherwise than being' conveyed via a syntax of weakness made all the stronger by exaggerating its inability to say anything. Again and again, we are made to share the process of unsaying the said or unwording the word. Fifield provides a beautiful and compelling assessment of the convergence between the master of French phenomenology and the verbal genius of the Irish writer." - Jean-Michel Rabaté, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
Authors: Peter Fifield
Series Title: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319241
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Peter Fifield 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29407-4Published: 20 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45145-6Published: 20 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31924-1Published: 20 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-6797
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 206
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction