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Through a Blanchovian reading, this study situates Samuel Beckett's major novels as writings either grappling with problems toward or at the limits of experience. Beckett posits in 1936 the necessity for a "literature of the unword, a...
Benedict Anderson has argued that the homogenous time resulting from the emergence of print news and the novel has enabled the "imagined communities" necessary for the production of the nation-state. My project, on the other hand, ...
The emergence of nihilism and chaos in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offers us a case study in how memes work. Memes are bundles of cultural information that display viral properties, sowing the seeds of reality in the...
This study explores the work of Samuel Beckett through the lens of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's materialist philosophy. More specifically, it chases after what the French theorists refer to as the "new man" or the "man without...
Overwriting Literature and Other Acts of Cultural Terrorism in the Control Era examines American experimental writers and artists who compose in what Gilles Deleuze called the control era. This project locates the beginning of the...
How the Irish Ended History: Postmodern Writings of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett, forming a pun based on Thomas Cahill's popular book, How the Irish Saved Civilization, takes as its subject, not the monks who preserved...
Beckett's aesthetic sensibility was essentially Romantic. His early work, steeped in irony though it is, remains fundamentally indebted to a vocabulary and a trove of themes that he inherited from a wide array of philosophers and poets...
Terraforming Modernism adopts the term terraforming from a largely science fiction canon, typically used to describe the imagined refashioning of extraterrestrial planets to make them more like Earth and more hospitable to human life....
Nearly every piece of Beckett criticism uses "Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit, yet many early assumptions about the work remain unexplored and unchallenged. Beckett in (t)Transition" suggests new interpretive possibilities of...
Modernist literature positioned itself as the principal imaginer of what I call a "perception sickness." One character after another--usually an artist or artist figure--suffers from a too-keen perception with dangerous consequences....
This project engages Antonin Artaud's highly influential critical volume, The Theater and Its Double, through the dual critical lenses of Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction in order to generate responses to questions posed by Artaud’s...
This project establishes how the struggles of modernist artists, such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, and Witold Gombrowicz create culture as an artistic experience, which happens in the political space in-between the artist...
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