The empty too : language and philosophy in the works of Samuel Beckett /

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Author / Creator:	Broomfield, Arthur, author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 100 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Language. Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Philosophy. Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989. Language and languages. Philosophy. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275750

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ISBN:	9781443863001 1443863009 1306907365 9781306907361 1443854026 9781443854023
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This engaging and often controversial study of Beckett's works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence in Worstward Ho, this rigorous reading of Beckett's key texts claims that what we perceive in the existential world can never be proved to exist, while language survives scrutiny, and will 'go on' to become the real, once it has been divested of its connection to the corporeal. This book draws on the major philosophers to support this thesis, but ...
Other form:	Print version: Broomfield, Arthur. Empty too 1443854026

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