Creative involution : Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze / S.E. Gontarski.

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Gontarski, S. E [author.]

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TextSeries: Other BeckettsPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780748697335
0748697330
9781474408356
1474408354
0748697322
9780748697328

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creative Involution.DDC classification:

828.91409 23

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PR6003.E282 Z664 2015

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Contents:

Creative Involution ; Copyright; Contents; Other Becketts: Series Preface ; Abbreviations for Works by Samuel Beckett; Acknowledgements; 1 'All the Dead Voices': A Preface; 2 'A Mixed Choir' From the Ditch of Astonishment: An Introduction; Anteriors; 3 The Invention of the Modern: A Symbiotic Remapping; 4 'Thought Thinks in its Own Right': A.A. Luce, Samuel Beckett and Bergson's Doctrine of Failure; Interiors; 5 Towards a Creative Involution; 6 'What it is to Have Been': Movement, Multiplicity and Representation; 7 Beyond the Shadow: Acts of Unceasing Creation.

8 A Theatre of Deterritorialization and the Questions We AskPosteriors; 9 Becoming Degree Zero: Authors Vanishing Into the Zone of Imperceptibility; Index.

Summary: An original philosophical approach to one of the 20th century's most important literary figures. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze focuses on a force, on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett intersects with such preoccupations of time as a double headed monster," of memory and multiplicity, of being and becoming that continue in an involutionary turn through the work of Gilles Deleuze. Key Features Deploys new critical approaches (e.g., a return to Bergson and Bergsonism) Addresses underexplored works in the Beckett canon Presents new critiques of representation and Beckett's relationship to philosophy Attentive to critical thinking around affect theory and/in literature.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

8 A Theatre of Deterritorialization and the Questions We AskPosteriors; 9 Becoming Degree Zero: Authors Vanishing Into the Zone of Imperceptibility; Index.

An original philosophical approach to one of the 20th century's most important literary figures. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze focuses on a force, on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett intersects with such preoccupations of time as a double headed monster," of memory and multiplicity, of being and becoming that continue in an involutionary turn through the work of Gilles Deleuze. Key Features Deploys new critical approaches (e.g., a return to Bergson and Bergsonism) Addresses underexplored works in the Beckett canon Presents new critiques of representation and Beckett's relationship to philosophy Attentive to critical thinking around affect theory and/in literature.

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