Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett

by Daniel Katz

Book Overview

In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labor of refusal: not only of what traditionally has made possible narrative and the novel but also of the major conventional suppositions concerning the primacy of consciousness, subjectivity, and expression for the artistic act. Beginning from the premise that Beckett never betrays his belief in "the impossibility to express," Saying I No More explores the Beckettian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116820
• ISBN13: 9780810116825
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 220 Pages