J. Shaw, Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable and How It Is

Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable and How It Is

Joanne Shaw

Amsterdam : Ropodi, coll. "Faux titre", 2010.

200 p.

prix 40EUR

EAN 9789042029736

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy is situated atthe intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoreticalconstruction of being and not-being; it is about making the self,making others, and making words, set against being unable to make theself, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett's prose works,though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims toproblematize the categories of ‘impotence' and ‘making' by showingBeckett's quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through hisnarrators' images of being unable to make self, other creatures andwords (impotence), along with his narrators' images of making self,other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that hisnarrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce newentities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child,the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett's narrators, creativity in itswidest sense is envisaged.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Trilogy Bodies
Trilogy Words
Ambiguous Bodies
Ambiguous Words
Bodies and Words in How It Is
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index