Angela Moorjani (Baltimore County University of Maryland)

Beckett and Buddhism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will be a key resource for readers interested in one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett. In clear and accessible prose, the book reassesses and elucidates the Buddhist thinking coursing through Beckett's fiction and theatre for over half a century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519691
• ISBN-10: 1316519694
• Artikelnr.: 61269063

Autorenporträt

Angela Moorjani is Professor Emerita of Modern Languages and Intercultural Pragmatics at the University of Maryland-UMBC. She has extensively explored the multidimensional writings of Samuel Beckett in her many publications. In her other books and articles, she investigates the effects of trauma and mourning on modernist writers and artists.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Beckett: Influence Affinity, Relay?
1. Schopenhauer's Buddhism Revisited: Recent Archival Evidence
2. East-West Dialogue via Schopenhauer
3. Buddhist and Mystic Threads in the Early Fiction
4. Beckett's Paradoxical Logic through Buddhist and Western Lenses
5. The Coincidence of Contraries and Noh Drama
6. The No-Self Staged and Voices from Elsewhere
7. Rebirth and the Buddhist Unborn in the Fiction and Drama
8. Dreaming 'all away' in the Final Texts.