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The long view : Beckett, Johnson, Wordsworth and the language of epitaphs
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Barry, Elizabeth C. (2007) The long view : Beckett, Johnson, Wordsworth and the language of epitaphs. In: Van Hulle, Dirk and Nixon, Mark, (eds.) All sturm and no drang : Beckett and romanticism : Beckett at Reading 2006. Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui (Number 18). Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi, pp. 18-47. ISBN 9789042023017
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Abstract
This article will investigate the idiom of death and memorialization in Beckett's work in relation to two particularly distinguished students of the epitaph, Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth, and consider how Beckett negotiates the different expectations of writing about death that each figure has bequeathed. It will examine Beckett's exploration, following that of Wordsworth, of how far writing about the dead can borrow, imaginatively, from the 'dispassionate' and 'all-equalising' perspective of death itself, and also consider Beckett's particularly laconic treatment of the difficulty in avoiding, as the Romantic poet put it, a certain 'triteness' in the summation of a life.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui | ||||
Publisher: | Rodopi | ||||
Place of Publication: | Amsterdam ; New York | ||||
ISBN: | 9789042023017 | ||||
Book Title: | All sturm and no drang : Beckett and romanticism : Beckett at Reading 2006 | ||||
Editor: | Van Hulle, Dirk and Nixon, Mark | ||||
Official Date: | 2007 | ||||
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Number: | Number 18 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 428 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 18-47 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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