Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading

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dc.contributor.advisorParsons, Cen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorClarkson, Carrolen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorStrombeck, Claire-Marieen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-15T10:10:21Z
dc.date.available2015-09-15T10:10:21Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis minor dissertation explores the reader's reception of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Often considered obscure and even unintelligible, I argue that to read the Trilogy is to affirm Beckett's slippery style of writing. Through a close reading of the three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, I examine how Beckett's narratives deny the reader any sense of finality in the act of reading, while also affirming the reader's freedom in each unique reading of the literary text. In addition to other key Beckett critics such as Hugh Kenner, H. Porter Abbott and Simon Critchley, I use Maurice Blanchot's critical writing on literature, especially those essays contained in The Sirens' Song, as a framework through which to engage with the three novels. Blanchot underscores the necessity of the reader to let the literary text be and not to attempt to subsume the narrative within his/ her hermeneutic expectations. To read the Trilogy and interpret it with any sense of finality is to misread the novels. Instead, my argument calls for a reading that affirms the singularity of the literary text and the elusive nature of Beckett's narrative voices.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationStrombeck, C. (2013). <i>Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13941en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationStrombeck, Claire-Marie. <i>"Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13941en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationStrombeck, C. 2013. Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Strombeck, Claire-Marie AB - This minor dissertation explores the reader's reception of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Often considered obscure and even unintelligible, I argue that to read the Trilogy is to affirm Beckett's slippery style of writing. Through a close reading of the three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, I examine how Beckett's narratives deny the reader any sense of finality in the act of reading, while also affirming the reader's freedom in each unique reading of the literary text. In addition to other key Beckett critics such as Hugh Kenner, H. Porter Abbott and Simon Critchley, I use Maurice Blanchot's critical writing on literature, especially those essays contained in The Sirens' Song, as a framework through which to engage with the three novels. Blanchot underscores the necessity of the reader to let the literary text be and not to attempt to subsume the narrative within his/ her hermeneutic expectations. To read the Trilogy and interpret it with any sense of finality is to misread the novels. Instead, my argument calls for a reading that affirms the singularity of the literary text and the elusive nature of Beckett's narrative voices. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading TI - Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13941 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13941
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationStrombeck C. Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13941en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleSamuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of readingen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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