TY - BOOK ID - 445870 TI - Beckett and nothing : trying to understand Beckett AU - Caselli, Daniela AU - Manchester University Press PY - 2010 SN - 9780719080197 0719080193 0719087848 1526146452 PB - Manchester ; New York Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Beckett, Samuel KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Beckett, Samuel, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Beckett&apos. KW - Doris Salcedo. KW - Human Wishes. KW - Jean-Paul Sartre. KW - Morton Feldman. KW - Samuel Beckett. KW - musicalisation. KW - nothingness. KW - paradoxical fidelity. KW - s cinema. KW - s television plays. KW - televisual production history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:445870 AB - This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Beckett and nothing invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which 'little nothings' pervade the Beckett canon.The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at 'nothing' not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on 'nothing' in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television. The volume is a scholarly intervention in the fields of Beckett studies which offers its chapters as case studies to use in the classroom. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies. ER -