Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel BeckettIn recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labor of refusal: not only of what traditionally has made possible narrative and the novel but also of the major conventional suppositions concerning the primacy of consciousness, subjectivity, and expression for the artistic act. Beginning from the premise that Beckett never betrays his belief in "the impossibility to express," Saying I No More explores the Beckettian refusal. Katz posits that the expression of voicelessness in Beckett is not silence, that the negativity and negation so evident in the great writer's work are not simply affirmed, but that the valorization of abnegation, emptiness, impotence, or the "no" can all too easily become itself an affirmation of power or an inverted imposition of force. |
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Contents
A Graphic Look at Becketts Whoroscopes | 28 |
The Subject as Method Method | 43 |
Origin Voice and Narrative in the Trilogy | 71 |
5 | 95 |
Joyces Wake and the Texts for Nothing | 125 |
Fabling Arrival in the Late Prose | 157 |
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Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett Daniel Katz No preview available - 1999 |
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already aporia argue articulation assertion Beckett's prose Beckett's texts Beckettian Benveniste Cartesian Cassiopeia catachresis chapter characters cliché cogito Company concept concerning consciousness critical crucial deictic deixis Derrida Descartes Descartes's deviser différance discourse discussion distant music echo Editions emphasis example existence expression fiction figure final Finnegans Wake first-person French Freud Galls hear hearer Ill Seen Ill implies Joyce Joyce's Knott language Leslie Hill linguistic literal Malone Malone Dies meaning Molloy Molloy's Moran Murphy Narcissus narration narrative never novel object Ohio Impromptu one's oneself originary passage perhaps phrase poem position poststructuralist precisely Pricks than Kicks problem problematic pronoun proper name prosopopoeia question reader reading recounted reference refusal relationship repetition ritual Samuel Beckett seems seen sense signifier sort space speaking speech Stepaside story structure temporality textual tion translation Trezise trilogy Ulysses Unnamable utterance voice Watt Watt's Whoroscope words Worstward Worstward Ho writing