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Author Cordingley, Anthony

Title Samuel Beckett's How It Is : Philosophy in Translation
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents Intro; 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 From the Cradle to the Cave: 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
Summary This 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
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Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast
Subject Philosophy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Philosophy
Philosophy in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474440639
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9781474440622
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