Beckett Judaizing Beckett: "a Jew from Greenland" in Paris
Through a biographical and thematic examination of Beckett's experience of Jews, Judaism and anti-Semitism in Dublin, Germany, and France, this paper will provide new information pertinent to an understanding of Beckett's postwar ethical and aesthetic approach. I will argue that the subtle...
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crbrillap:10.1163/18757405-018001024 2023-05-15T16:28:05+02:00 Beckett Judaizing Beckett: "a Jew from Greenland" in Paris Blackman, Jackie 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-018001024 https://brill.com/view/journals/sbt/18/1/article-p325_24.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/sbt/18/1/article-p325_24.xml unknown Brill Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui volume 18, issue 1, page 325-340 ISSN 0927-3131 1875-7405 Literature and Literary Theory journal-article 2007 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-018001024 2022-12-11T12:48:03Z Through a biographical and thematic examination of Beckett's experience of Jews, Judaism and anti-Semitism in Dublin, Germany, and France, this paper will provide new information pertinent to an understanding of Beckett's postwar ethical and aesthetic approach. I will argue that the subtle yet discernible traces of Judaic suffering and otherness which can be found in Beckett's early plays demonstrate a unique form of hypersensitivity, which, in the aftermath of the catastrophe, can be seen to embody a timely and appropriate response to the problematics of Judaic mimesis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Brill (via Crossref) Greenland Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 18 1 325 340 |
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Through a biographical and thematic examination of Beckett's experience of Jews, Judaism and anti-Semitism in Dublin, Germany, and France, this paper will provide new information pertinent to an understanding of Beckett's postwar ethical and aesthetic approach. I will argue that the subtle yet discernible traces of Judaic suffering and otherness which can be found in Beckett's early plays demonstrate a unique form of hypersensitivity, which, in the aftermath of the catastrophe, can be seen to embody a timely and appropriate response to the problematics of Judaic mimesis. |
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