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Iconic Spaces: The Dark Theology of Samuel Beckett's Drama

Iconic Spaces: The Dark Theology of Samuel Beckett's Drama

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ISBN10: 0268044104
ISBN13: 9780268044107
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 7.31 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

Iconic Spaces looks at Samuel Beckett's mature theatrical work as a displaced theology of the icon. Sandra Wynands rejects conventional existentialist or nihilist interpretations of Beckett's work, arguing instead that beneath the text, in the depths of language and being, Beckett creates an absolutely irreducible, transcendent space. She traces a nondual model of perception and experience through a selection of Beckett's art-critical and dramatic works, focusing in particular on four minimalist plays: Catastrophe, Not I, Quad, and Film.

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