Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination

✍ Scribed by Mark Byron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 86
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways. By deploying figures of ruination and excavation with etymological self-awareness, Beckett's late prose narratives - Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho - comprise a late-career meditation on the stratigraphic layerings of language and memory over an extended writing career. These layers comprise an embodied record of writing in their allusions to literary history and to Beckett's own oeuvre.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Samuel Beckett’s Geological Imagination
Contents
Introduction
Bedrock
Styles of Interment
Field Objects
Text Mining
1 ‘Saxa Loquuntur!’
Abode of Stones
Till Now
Ruins True Refuge
Ontospeliology: the Geology of Consciousness
2 Company: Mining Beckett’s Literary Memory
3 Ill Seen Ill Said: Turning Deasil among the Cromlechs
Mooring Celestial Objects
Strange Attraction: Stone Woman
Abode of Things
A Sharp Nose for Detritus
4 Wordly Corrasions in Worstward Ho
Earthworks: Philology
‘Bits of Pipe’: Archaeology
Grotto: Masonry
Conclusion – The Masonry of Representation
Abbreviations
Bibliography

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