Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity

By: Shane Weller

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Hardcover | 1 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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If there is one trait common to almost all post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and makes possible a post-metaphysical ethics. Beckett's oeuvre in particular has repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an affirmation. In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity, however, Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work.

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'The book offers a challenge to the deconstructive readings of Benjaminian translation, an exhaustive account of the ethics of comedy, and an insightful survey and analysis of 'feminine alterities', with useful readings of Irigaray, Cixous, and Kristeva. Weller's performance of the anethical throughout the text produces an argument that will come as a surprise to many Beckett critics - a surprise because it maintains a critical reading that is neatly positioned 'between' the conventional approaches to Beckett and ethics. I strongly recommend this book.'

- Professor Richard J. Lane, Malaspina University-College, Canada

'This is an extremely well-researched and thought-out work of Beckett criticism. The chapter organization in which each of the three chosen themes is treated first from a theoretical perspective, followed by specific examples taken from Beckett, is limpid and the argument always clearly signposted. This makes the book accessible even to the reader unfamiliar with the vast array of Western thought Shane Weller summons effortlessly.'

- Helen Penet-Astbury, Etudes irlandaises

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Preface	p. viii
Introduction: Literature and Alterity	p. 1
In Other Words: On the Ethics of Translation
Translation and Difference: Dispatching Benjamin	p. 33
Translation and Negation: Beckett and the Bilingual CEuvre	p. 57
The Laugh of the Other: On the Ethics of Comedy
Pratfalls into Alterity: Laughter from Baudelaire to Freud and Beyond	p. 83
Last Laughs: Beckett and the 'risus purus'	p. 111
The Difference a Woman Makes: On the Ethics of Gender
Feminine Alterities: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Studies	p. 137
'As If the Sex Mattered': Beckett's Degenderations	p. 164
Conclusion: Beckett and the Anethical	p. 192
Notes	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 212
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