The World of Samuel Beckett (Psychiatry and the Humanities) Paperback - 1990
by Smith, Joseph H. [Editor]
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This book brings together a distinguished group of authorities who concede that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but it's still an appalling vision.
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- Title The World of Samuel Beckett (Psychiatry and the Humanities)
- Author Smith, Joseph H. [Editor]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [Psychiatry and
- Condition Used - Clean & Unmarked
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 240311019
- ISBN 9780801841354 / 0801841356
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.71 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Library of Congress subjects Psychoanalysis and literature, Beckett, Samuel - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90-40273
- Dewey Decimal Code 848.914
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From the rear cover
"The World of Samuel Beckett" brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's "Enough", Blau concedes that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but "it's still an appalling vision". Esslin (who coined the term "theater of the absurd") challenges the notion that Beckett is difficult or depressing, arguing instead that he is basically a comic writer, gallows humor thought it be. Angela Moorjani sees Beckett's writing as the product of a cryptic text inscribed within. Bennett Simon, a psychiatrist who has written extensively on Beckett, examines the self in current art and psychoanalysis. Joseph H. Smith emphasizes that Beckett, like Freud and Lacan, challenges any notions of "cure" as the easy achievement of happiness.