Schwab Moments for Nothing

Samuel Beckett and the End Times
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55899-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwab, Gabriele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Moments for Nothing: Endgame and Its Discontents
2. The Transitional Space Between Life and Death: “The Calmative,” Molloy, and Malone Dies
3. End Times of Subjectivity: The Unnamable
4. “Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe”: Happy Days and the Last Humans
5. Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: The Lost Ones
Coda: Breath and the Vicissitudes of Animation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriele Schwab is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she holds appointments in comparative literature, anthropology, English, and European languages and studies. She is the author of several books, most recently Radioactive Ghosts (2020). Her previous Columbia University Press books are Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity (2012) and Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (2010).