Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others: Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

By Rina Kim

This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230230474
• ISBN13: 9780230230477
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"