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Samuel Beckett’s Lyric Failure 1st Edition

SKU: 9781350464193

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Samuel Beckett\'s Lyric Failure 1st Edition

Author(s)

Mantra Mukim

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781350464193, 9781350464186

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

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PDF and EPUB

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Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett’s poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett’s poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth and twentieth century European poets such as Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Montale, and Apollinaire, the book situates failure in the triangulation of the lyric impulse, subjectivity, and the human voice. Beckett, in his poems, employs lyric tactics that range from deixis, parataxis, and caesura to specific kinds of timbre, resonances, and punctuations. These tactics situate the poetic voice in the liminal points between life and death, event and non-event, beginning and ending, and more broadly, between expression and failure. The book frames these liminalities under the rubric of ‘lyric failure’. Moving beyond the usual comparisons with his prose and drama, the study highlights failure as a generative force that structures Beckett’s anti-expressive poetics.

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Samuel Beckett’s Lyric Failure 1st Edition

SKU: 9781350464209

Original price was: $103.50.Current price is: $24.99.

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Full Title

Samuel Beckett\'s Lyric Failure 1st Edition

Author(s)

Mantra Mukim

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781350464209, 9781350464186

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett’s poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett’s poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth and twentieth century European poets such as Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Montale, and Apollinaire, the book situates failure in the triangulation of the lyric impulse, subjectivity, and the human voice. Beckett, in his poems, employs lyric tactics that range from deixis, parataxis, and caesura to specific kinds of timbre, resonances, and punctuations. These tactics situate the poetic voice in the liminal points between life and death, event and non-event, beginning and ending, and more broadly, between expression and failure. The book frames these liminalities under the rubric of ‘lyric failure’. Moving beyond the usual comparisons with his prose and drama, the study highlights failure as a generative force that structures Beckett’s anti-expressive poetics.