Anthony Cordingley

Samuel Beckett's How It Is (eBook, PDF)

Philosophy in Translation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It IsThis book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature. It offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel, identifying Beckett's use of previously unknown sources in the history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods, and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the book traces Beckett's transformation of his narrator's 'ancient voice', his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic representation that offers the means to think beyond intractable paradoxes of philosophy. This shift in the work's relation to tradition marks a hiatus in literary modernism, a watershed moment whose deep and enduring significance may now be appreciated.Key FeaturesOffers the first comprehensive treatment of Beckett's most poorly understood novel, identifying the breadth of its philosophical and literary sourcesMakes extensive use of manuscript evidence and newly accessible notes from Beckett's reading in philosophyGuides the reader through Beckett's philosophical and theological sources, highlighting his innovative and original dialectics between the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Ancient Stoics, the early Church Fathers and desert mystics, seventeenth-century mystics and Rationalists

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440622
• Artikelnr.: 54094878

Autorenporträt

Anthony Cordingley is ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of English, University of Sydney, on secondment from the Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis, where he is Associate Professor in English and Translation Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. A Poetics of Translation: Dante, Goethe and the Paideia
2. Pythagorean Mysticism / Democritean Wisdom
3. The Physical Cosmos: Aristotelian Dialectics
4. A Comedy of Ethics: From Plato to Christian Asceticism (Via Rembrandt)
5. Mystic Paths, Inward Turns
6. Pascal's Miraculous Tongue
7. Spinoza, Leibniz, or a World "Less Exquisitely Organized"
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index.