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Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics

:	Tim Lawrence
:	Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9783319753997
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:	English

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This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett's writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett's late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett's work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky's theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Tim Lawrence is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York, UK. He has articles and reviews published in outlets including theJournal of Beckett Studies andSamuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. His research interests lie in the European avant-garde, phenomenology, and twentieth-century visual culture.

	Acknowledgments	6
	Note on the Presentation of Text	8
	Contents	9
	Abbreviations	10
	Chapter 1: Introduction	12
	Chapter 2: Representation and Resistance: Beckett as Reader and Critic	33
	Figural Evocations	34
	Kant, Schopenhauer and Beckett’s Philosophical Influences	37
	Kant, Cassirer and Interwar Politics	44
	Schopenhauer and the Proustian Equation	48
	Beckett and the “Art d’Incarcération”	54
	A(p)perception and the Eye	60
	Watt’s Pots and Kantian Objects	64
	Vision and Unknowing	69
	Chapter 3: Beckett’s Aesthetic of Vision: Figuration and Surrealist Influence	89
	“These Long Shifting Thresholds”: Figuring Disappearance	90
	The Surrealist Situation and Murphy in Translation	97
	André Breton and the Surrealist Image	101
	This Quarter and Beckett’s Poetic Adaptations	107
	Surrealist Revisions and Sartrean Objects	113
	Chapter 4: Transitions and Abstractions: Periodical Culture and Beckett’s Revisions of the Visual	133
	Beckett in Transition: Revising and Reflecting on Surrealism	133
	Beckett and Kandinsky: Critical and Creative Abstraction	148
	Formal Reflections: Kandinsky in Watt and Beyond	155
	Kandinsky’s Concretions: Philosophy and Form	162
	Figure and Ground, Vision and Voice in Premier Amour	166
	Chapter 5: “This Running Against the Walls of Our Cage”: Beckett at the Boundary	177
	Figural Connections: L’Innommable, Mercier et Camier and Foirades	179
	The Fragment between Criticism and Fiction	187
	Beckett, Bataille and the Ends of Limitation	190
	Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics and the Late Beckettian Limit	192
	The Impossible View: The Limits of Thought in “Imagination Dead Imagine”	199
	Figuring the Unfigurable: Blanchot, Bataille and Rhetorical Delineations of the Limit	203
	Chapter 6: Conclusion	219
	Bibliography	223
	Published Works by Samuel Beckett	223
	Archival Sources	225
	Secondary Sources	225
	Index	245