Current Search: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 (x)
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The post-apocalyptic, the cyborg, and the passage of time: a reading of the parallels of science fiction and the works of Samuel Beckett.
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Creator
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Pancho, Aaron., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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This study is an examination of the several themes and conventions of science fiction that seem to appear in the texts of Samuel Beckett. Expectedly, many of the texts produced by both science fiction and Beckett just before, during, and immediately after World War II share similar concerns; though perhaps less expectedly, these two relatively unlike bodies of work can be used to help better understand and illuminate one another. In Waiting for Godot, nuclear anxieties shed light on the play...
Show moreThis study is an examination of the several themes and conventions of science fiction that seem to appear in the texts of Samuel Beckett. Expectedly, many of the texts produced by both science fiction and Beckett just before, during, and immediately after World War II share similar concerns; though perhaps less expectedly, these two relatively unlike bodies of work can be used to help better understand and illuminate one another. In Waiting for Godot, nuclear anxieties shed light on the play's apparent post-apocalyptic landscape and the profound emptiness that permeates the stage. In Molloy, Hugh Kenner uses Centaur imagery to explain the title character's Cartesian relationship with his bicycle; however, contemporary sensibilities at the time of the novel's publication suggests a cyborg reading of the Molloy/bicycle hybrid can also be productive. And in Krapp's Last Tape, the tape recorder serves as a figurative time machine, which allows readers to consider the ways technology continues to allow for the capture of time and subsequent reflection.
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Date Issued
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2011
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3318674
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Cybernetics in literature, Cyborgs in literature, Literature and science
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Metaphorical worlds in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" and Harold Pinter's "Ashes to Ashes".
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Creator
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Fiedler, Robin M., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Abstract/Description
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Harold Pinter's debt to Samuel Beckett is not a matter of direct copying or replication, but a natural progression of the postmodern dramatic form. Both Pinter and Beckett examine human violence, companionship, game playing, religion, and philosophy, culminating in a world-as-stage metaphor where characters are subtly aware of being both spectators and players. Pinter's and Beckett's mimetic representations, whether successful or not, capture the essence of existence as a continuous creative...
Show moreHarold Pinter's debt to Samuel Beckett is not a matter of direct copying or replication, but a natural progression of the postmodern dramatic form. Both Pinter and Beckett examine human violence, companionship, game playing, religion, and philosophy, culminating in a world-as-stage metaphor where characters are subtly aware of being both spectators and players. Pinter's and Beckett's mimetic representations, whether successful or not, capture the essence of existence as a continuous creative process: characters examine dreamlike memories of experiences for meaning and narrate the past in their present existence in order to bring purpose to their future. The creative process of defining the past influences the characters' present decisions: the phenomenology of being in time is the only certainty. Pinter and Beckett move beyond tragicomedy and absurdity to an ontological metaphor: play creates fiction as an epistemological truth.
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Date Issued
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2000
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12677
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Subject Headings
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Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989.--Endgame., Pinter, Harold,--1930-2008.--Ashes to ashes., Drama--Technique., Realism in literature.
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Document (PDF)