{"product_id":"becketts-creatures-joseph-anderton-9781474234535","title":"Beckett's Creatures","description":"In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough close readings of Beckett's prose and drama, particularly texts from the middle period, including \u003ci\u003eMolloy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMalone Dies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e, Anderton explicates four arenas of creaturely life in Beckett. Each chapter attends to a particular theme - testimony, power, humour and survival - to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that precipitate the creaturely state of suspension. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida to explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures of creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that bespeaks the provisional nature of the human. The result is a provocative examination of the indirect relationship between art and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour and survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning after Auschwitz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Anderton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474234534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474234535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Joseph Anderton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424392462591,"sku":"9781474234535","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28bbf366-36e5-4711-8eac-71e3c35d3638.jpg?v=1761529951","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becketts-creatures-joseph-anderton-9781474234535","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}