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Beckett and authority The uses of cliche /

This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliche, revealing the strategies he used to challenge inte...

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Main Authors: Barry, Elizabeth
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Plays, playscripts
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230627499
Summary: This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliche, revealing the strategies he used to challenge intellectual and social authority in his works.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2006.
Carrier Form: 248 p.
ISBN: 9780230008335
9780230627499 :
0230627498 :
CLC: I562.06
Contents: Introduction Cliche, Consensus and Realism Cliche and Memory Cliche, Autobiography and Epitaph Cliche and the Language of Religion Beyond Cliche: Authority, Agency and the Fall of Rhetoric Bibliography Index.

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