Beckett's Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity

By Rhys Tranter

Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3838211359
• ISBN13: 9783838211350
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"