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Where now? A few reflections on Beckett, Robert Smithson, and the local
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Katz, Daniel (2010) Where now? A few reflections on Beckett, Robert Smithson, and the local. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol.22 . pp. 329-340. ISSN 0927-3131.
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Abstract
This article examines Beckett's legacy in the work of Robert Smithson, stressing how the latter's “site/nonsite dialectic” seems to work through many of Beckett's concerns as played out in The Unnamable, but also in the “Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit,” a work to which Smithson alludes in an oblique citation. Smithson himself stresses the debt of his “alogon” to the Beckettian “surd,” and I argue here that Smithson extends the Beckettian deconstruction of logocentrism into the realm of matter, objects, and “Earth Art.” It is in the wake of this process that he allows for a reconsideration of the local, itself more important in Beckett than commonly realized.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui | ||||
Publisher: | Editions Rodopi B.V. | ||||
ISSN: | 0927-3131 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.22 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 329-340 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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