Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality

by Eric P. Levy

Eric P. Levy's book investigates the mentality or attitude of cognitive apprehension expressed in Beckettian texts. Primary areas of concern include how the Beckettian attitude began, what concepts it invents or transforms to sustain its mode of thought, how the mentality wards off factors which would refute or heal it, and, most paradoxical of all, why this mentality ultimately reduces the mind to an estranged source of thought, continuously repudiated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631022
• ISBN13: 9780815631026
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.7"