R. Kim

Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others

Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-23047-7
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9780230230477
• ISBN-10: 0230230474
• Artikelnr.: 28242924

Autorenporträt

RINA KIM is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction Memories and Melancholia: Women and Ireland in Beckett's Early French Fiction The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works Conclusion: 'Stirrings Still' Notes Bibliography Index