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Maloney, Cahill B. Claire. "Samuel Beckett and the Irish grotesque tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22606.

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By fusing many of the established hypotheses on the source of the grotesque in Irish literature, this study establishes that these writers' impatience with all boundaries and limitations, physical or mental, led them to exploit the indeterminacy of the grotesque to achieve their particular aesthetic and epistemological objectives.<br>After an initial chapter on the relevant theoretical and national considerations, the prodigious cloacal visions of Beckett and Joyce are compared, with emphasis on their use of the grotesque to demythologize the creative process. A fourth chapter compares O'Brien

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Fraser, Graham 1966. "The self-conscious narrator in Beckett's trilogy /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59888.

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This thesis examines Beckett's trilogy as a work of metafiction, approaching each novel through its primary metafictional device, the self-conscious narrator. Since the narrators are aware of their roles as story-tellers, the examination is carried out in light of Beckett's pronouncements on the nature of art and the artist. Not only are the narrators found to meet Beckett's criteria for artists and artistic development, but Beckett's aesthetic is seen virtually to require self-consciousness. In their situations, their relationship to the audience (both reader and narratee) and the nature of t

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Hellman, Thomas. "Beckett, Babel et bilinguisme, suivi de, Espaces." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79945.

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Critical essay. Soon after the end of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett began producing French and English versions of each of his works. This raises interesting questions concerning the relationship between two languages and two texts within one literary work. Bilingualism is an essential dimension of Beckett's "oeuvre" which pushes the very limits of literature and explores essential aspects of language, identity and creation.<br>Creative writing. I was born in Montreal of a French mother and a father from Texas. My work in creative writing consists of six short stories set between

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Tucker, Amanda. "Godot in Earnest: Beckettian Readings of Wilde." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4248/.

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Critics and audiences alike have neglected the idea of Wilde as a precursor to Beckett. But I contend that a closer look at each writer's aesthetic and philosophic tendencies-for instance, their interest in the fluid nature of self, their understanding of identity as a performance, and their belief in language as both a way in and a way out of stagnancy -will connect them in surprising and highly significant ways. This thesis will focus on the ways in which Wilde prefigures Beckett as a dramatist. Indeed, many of the themes that Beckett, free from the constraints of a censor and from the socie

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Wulf, Catharina. "Desire in Beckett : a Lacanian approach to Samuel Beckett's plays Krapp's last tape, Not I, That time, Footfalls and Rockaby." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59554.

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This thesis argues that desire is a major theme in Samuel Beckett's dramatic works. Central to our analysis is Jacques Lacan's concept of the Desire for the Other, as the outcome of the human subject's division. We will investigate how desire is expressed at the level of Beckett's characters' utterance. The characters' attempts at and inability to achieve a reconciliation with their speech correlate with the impossibility of reunifying Lacan's split subject. The first part of our discussion focuses upon desire-as-paradox--the lack of will to desire and the continuation of desire--in Not I, Foo

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Brown, Peter Robert 1963. "Narrative, knowledge and personhood : stories of the self and Samuel Beckett's first-person prose." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35856.

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This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes.<br>I present an account of the notion of narrative and explore the nature of justified narrative assertions. I then turn to skeptical and anti-realist arguments about the ability of narratives to represent truthfully the world. Such arguments are widespread in postmodernist and poststructuralist circles, and in order to evaluate them,

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Bernier, Frédérique 1973 Apr 11. "La voix et l'os : poétiques du dépouillement chez Saint-Denys Garneau et Samuel Beckett." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115636.

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This thesis is concerned with the poetics of impoverishment as found in the works of Saint-Denys Garneau and Samuel Beckett. It seeks to shed light on the reactivation of a Christian ascetic heritage within modern writing forms (poetic and narrative) and also, more specifically, to develop a novel analysis of these works from the perspective of their points of overlap. This thesis presents analysis of the relationships between voice and body (part I), of the doppelganger and self-generation figures (part II), of prayer, desert and image motifs (part III) throughout the totality of both corpuse

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Springer, Michael Leicester. ""Form fading among fading forms" death, language and madness in the novels of Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002240.

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The primary thesis of this dissertation is that the development of narrative strategy and technique through the course of Samuel Beckett’s fictional oeuvre enacts a parody of the Cartesian method of doubt, in which the search for first principles, instead of providing grounds for certainty, is a hopeless, grotesque quest for a self which eludes any and every assertion. My chief concerns are thus, firstly, to explicate and elucidate the nature of such narrative strategies and techniques, and how these can be said to parody epistemological procedure; and secondly, to interrogate the implications

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Melo, Gedivânio Feitosa Mateus. "Caligrafia apagada = silêncio na escrita de Esperando Godot." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284351.

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Orientador: Mario Alberto de Santana<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T23:51:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_GedivanioFeitosaMateus_M.pdf: 950720 bytes, checksum: a03d9be3609069f0698b30f07a486418 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011<br>Resumo: Considerando o Silêncio como um elemento inerente aos processos de criação do teatro moderno, esta pesquisa dedica-se à investigação do Silêncio na obra "Esperando Godot", de Samuel Beckett, construindo cuidadosa reflexão sobre a sua presença em categorias específ

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Gagas, Jonathan. "Late Modernist Schizophrenia: From Phenomenology to Cultural Pathology." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/263194.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>My dissertation demonstrates how representations of schizophrenic characters in novels can combat widespread misuses of psychiatric terms and help readers empathize with mentally ill people if we read these novels with some understanding of psychiatry and the psychoanalysis that influenced them. I undertake a critical genealogy of the schizophrenia concept's migration from the mental health professions to fiction, concentrating on the period from the German invasion of Paris in June 1940 to the events of May 1968, with some attention to contemporary uses of the schizophreni

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Tinti, Tauan Fernandes 1985. "Endgame no limite da interpretação." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269970.

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Orientador: Fabio Akcelrud Durão<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T14:56:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tinti_TauanFernandes_M.pdf: 690660 bytes, checksum: f383a642a724f05ed1c7d2d14b1d9166 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011<br>Resumo: Este trabalho consiste em uma leitura de Fim de Partida, de Samuel Beckett, construída a partir da hipótese de que esta peça, com o que pode ser definido como uma recusa sistemática a tudo o que lhe venha de fora, é capaz de integrar à sua própria estrutura fo

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Smith, Russell 1968. "What matter who's speaking : Samuel Beckett and the author-function." 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs658.pdf.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-330) Resists the notion of a subversive Beckett appropriated by the cultural mainstream, by tracing the discursive limits of avante-garde writing, and by exploring how Beckett paradoxically reinforced the traditional author-function even as he appeared to challenge it.

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Smith, Russell 1968. "What matter who's speaking : Samuel Beckett and the author-function / Russell Smith." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19798.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-330)<br>vii, 330 leaves ; 30 cm.<br>Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.<br>Resists the notion of a subversive Beckett appropriated by the cultural mainstream, by tracing the discursive limits of avante-garde writing, and by exploring how Beckett paradoxically reinforced the traditional author-function even as he appeared to challenge it.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2001

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Wynands, Sandra. "Negative theology and Samuel Beckett's strategies of reduction : visuality and iconicity in Beckett's later works for the stage." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/660.

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Over the course of his life Beckett's work moves through a process of reduction toward increasing simplicity and concentration of means. 1 trace this reduction in Beckett's later works for the stage and compare it with the dialectics of negative theology, both Buddhist and Orthodox Christian, paying particular attention to structures of visuality and iconicity (both visual and not) in Beckett's work. The visual enjoyed a status of peculiar ontological primacy for Beckett. In it he saw exemplified both the dualisms he worked to overcome throughout his career and the saving grace that will

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Brown, Verna. "Yesterday's deformities : a discussion of the role of memory and discourse in the plays of Samuel Beckett." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/888.

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Although Samuel Beckett's plays indicate his abiding interest in the complex functioning of memory, little has been written on the topic. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine the wide-ranging, specific approaches towards recall and forgetting that he reflects in his drama. Because conversational strategies are grounded in cognitive processes, the interplay between memory and discourse will also be probed. The thesis foregrounds Beckett's profound distrust of memory functioning, as well as his conviction that `yesterday' has dangerous power to `deform'. Through his own perception

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"Reference and representation in the works of Gao Xingjian and Samuel Beckett." 2008. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893666.

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Coleman, Tara Jean.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-149).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter 1 --- p.26<br>Chapter Chapter 2 --- p.61<br>Chapter Chapter 3 --- p.102<br>Conclusion --- p.141<br>Bibliography --- p.144

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"Death in three novels by Zhang Xianliang, Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890539.

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by Mak Mei Kwan Alisa.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-115).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>摘要 --- p.iii<br>Acknowledgements --- p.v<br>Chapter Chapter One: --- The Displaced Man --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter Two: --- The Fragmented Self in Xiguan siwang [Getting Used to Dying] --- p.19<br>Chapter Chapter Three: --- Death of the Author: An Abandoned Beingin Malone Dies --- p.46<br>Chapter Chapter Four: --- Death of Sharing: A Man of Authenticityin The Outsider --- p.67<br>Chapter Cha

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"Reading Beckett and Yeats from a crosscultural perspective: a reader-oriented approach." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892488.

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Li Mei-yee.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-106).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>摘要 --- p.iii<br>Acknowledgements --- p.iv<br>Contents --- p.vi<br>Introduction: Questions about Reading --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter 1 --- Waiting for Godot and the Issue of Absurdity --- p.28<br>Chapter Chapter 2 --- At the Hawk's Well and the Drama of the Interior --- p.59<br>Conclusion --- p.90<br>Note --- p.100<br>Works Cited --- p.101

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"The risus purus: laughter today in Beckett's Endgame and Pinter's The birthday party." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894394.

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Lee, Tin Yan Grace.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves [106-111]).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter 1: --- Laughter and Man --- p.15<br>Chapter Chapter 2: --- Laughter and Man's Obligation to Persist in Beckett's Endgame --- p.37<br>Chapter Chapter 3: --- Laughter and Self-Knowledge in Pinter's The Birthday Party --- p.68<br>Conclusion --- p.100

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Amoretti, Valerio. "The Psychic Work of Reading: Form and Unconscious Affect in the Wake of Modernism." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-e7jp-r980.

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This dissertation articulates the relationship between literary form and unconscious affect in fictions by Cesare Pavese, Samuel Beckett and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Drawing from contemporary psychoanalytic object-relations theory, including the work of W.R. Bion and the Bionian school, it defines three paradigmatic forms of psychic work — reparation, containment and construction — that structure the intersubjective unconscious responses to specific formal challenges. It claims that the psychic work involved in meeting those challenges is both “historical” — in the sense that it reveals elements o

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