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Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity

By Shane Weller

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
1403995818, 9781403995810
Open Library ID
OL22730861M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
569 kB (582548 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
232\229
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

If there is one trait common to almost all post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and makes possible a post-metaphysical ethics. Beckett's oeuvre in particular has repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an affirmation. In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity , however, Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work.

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