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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
... begins by detailing Bersani’s early engagement, in Balzac to Beckett: Center and Circumference in French Fiction (1970), with Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s and Maurice Blanchot’s commentaries on the two writers. Having borrowed Deleuze’s description of Proust...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 64–93.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay considers the lobster of Samuel Beckett’s early story “Dante and the Lobster” as what disturbs the count. Assumed to be dead, only to then be revealed alive when it is about to enter the cooking pot, the lobster here is an “incalculable factor” that unsettles...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 259–266.
Published: 01 May 2023
...David Lloyd This essay discusses a remark on the eye and the mouth in Bersani and Dutoit’s Caravaggio’s Secrets that links Caravaggio to Samuel Beckett. Exploring the idea of the gaze and the voice as “things” rather than objects that confirm the subject in its place, and connecting Bersani’s...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 6–19.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Press, 2000 . 277 -308. Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist . New York: Harper Collins, 1997 . Hegel, G. W. F. “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate.” Early Theological Writings . Trans. T. M. Knox. Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1971 . 182 -301. ____. Phenomenology...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 1996
...Avital Ronell Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Beckett Samuel . Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929–1989 . Ed. Gontarski S. E. . New York : Grove , 1995 . Birner Louis...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that his essay discerns in Samuel Beckett’s pursuit of the “energizing effect of failures in language, a failure that prevents a voice from entering, and being locked into, the presumed history of a presumed culture” ( “Broken” 414 ). Such “failures” enact language’s refusal to reduce itself to mere...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 24–61.
Published: 01 July 1993
... Samuel . Molloy . 1951 . Trans. Bowles Patrick . Three Novels by Samuel Beckett . New York : Grove , 1991 . Benayoun Robert . Érotique du surréalisme . Paris : Pauvert , 1965 . Bersani Leo . “ Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature .” Representations 25 ( 1989 ): 99...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 150–168.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., Arnold Schönberg, or Samuel Beckett, we will inevitably be reminded of the pressure exerted by their contemporaries as to the incomprehensibility of their work. Even those closest to them would ask “What is this? What does it mean? What purpose does it serve?” Regardless of the answer they did or did...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 19–43.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Samuel Beckett. Repetition, Theory, and Text . Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1988 . Deleuze Gilles . Difference and Repetition . Trans. Patton Paul . New York : Columbia UP , 1994 . Derrida Jacques . Limited Inc . Trans. Weber Samuel Mehlman Jeffrey . Evanston...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 43–53.
Published: 01 November 2015
...?,” a question that is itself a citation placed in quotation marks and therefore marked as a “borrowing” of what rightly belongs to someone else (in this case, Beckett, “what matter who’s speaking?”), calls out to be authored or to be recognized as having been authored in a way that we are not free to ignore...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Mallarmé or Samuel Beckett—that are particularly receptive
to his own understanding of the literary “event,” works that, by implication,
share that understanding.9 When he actually engages works of art or lit-
erature, then, Badiou...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 67–92.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Giovanna is not tired. She is exhausted. This whole sequence expresses exhaustion. Deleuze begins an essay on Samuel Beckett with this sentence: “Being exhausted is much more than being tired” ( “The Exhausted” 152 ). He proceeds to elaborate further: The tired person no longer has any (subjective...
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 76–104.
Published: 01 July 1990
.... Jack Nicholson. Clark Gable. E. L. Doctorow. Philippe Sollers, Robert Wilson, Michael Snow. "even Samuel Beckett himself," Jacques Lacan. Oedipus. God. Adam, Bob Perelman. Flaubert. Mallarme. Barthes. Freud, Marcuse. Nixon. and Kennedy. 4 New York City came into its own as a fashion capital during...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... article “What Is an Author,” Michel Foucault reflects on Samuel Beckett’s question: “[W]hat does it matter who is speaking?” and suggests a reversal of the tradition—a shift from author to discourse. He analyzes the author function as a historical construct, a technology to exercise different types...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 May 2016
... devoted his 1947–48 series of lectures to the controversies and refinements of this Biranean version of the thought experiment. Among the more recent fictional entries, we would, of course, want to include Samuel Beckett, who—in one of the most elaborate suspended man fictions to be written to date—placed...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 1–37.
Published: 01 November 1992
... . London : Cox , 1908 . Balfour Arthur James . Decadence . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1908 . Baron Wendy . Ethel Sands and Her Circle . London : Owen , 1977 . Barrett Michèle . “ The Concept of Difference .” Feminist Review 26 ( 1987 ): 29 - 41 . Beckett...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 106–133.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of German Romanticism and classical political economy. His new project, Murmurs of Democracy , explores the politics of poetic abnegation from Novalis to Beckett. Adorno, Theodor. “Beitrag zur Ideologienlehre.” Gesammelte Schriften . Vol. 8 . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972 . 457 -77...
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 96–127.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Samuel Beckett and Aeschylus
stages (or at least claims to be staging) a paradigmatic nineteenth-
century novel about agency, presenting the totalitarian metamorphosis
of the utmost transgressive act: while in Dostoyevsky’s novel...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 59–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., head out into the hall to speak with Dr. M. I turn my head, briefly, and see Carlos’s body flop onto his bed. Hospital horizontality. Works Cited Bach Sheldon . The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love . Northvale : Aronson , 1994 . Beckett Samuel . Waiting...
