Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others: Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

Kim, R.

This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-03-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230230477

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-58852-7

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 210