{"product_id":"samuel-beckett-and-the-terror-christopher-langlois-9781474444378","title":"Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides a sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terror\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTexts for Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow It Is\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCompany\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIll Seen Ill Said\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWorstward Ho\u003c\/i\u003e. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett's, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance - ethical, ontological, and political - to what speaks in Beckett's texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKey Features\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eArticulates a novel conceptual framework through the language of terror for reading Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose, all the while engaging with key thinkers in the discourse of contemporary critical theory like Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alain BadiouProvides for the first time a thorough articulation of the significance of terror to Blanchot's understanding not only of what literature is \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e literature, but also of the literary history of modernity that Blanchot explicitly traces from the Marquis de Sade to Samuel BeckettAffords literary studies (and Beckett and Blanchot studies specifically) a distinctive and timely voice in the veritable \"terror industry\" of scholarly research that has proliferated in the twenty-first century against the politico-historical backdrop of the War on Terror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Langlois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474444377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474444378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Christopher Langlois","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485280940287,"sku":"9781474444378","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25259caf-fe0c-4114-a436-6afe6b063799.jpg?v=1778048984","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/samuel-beckett-and-the-terror-christopher-langlois-9781474444378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}