Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché

by Elizabeth Barry

Overview

This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliché, revealing the strategies he used to challenge intellectual and social authority in his works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230008335
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/03/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ELIZABETH BARRY is a Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Cliché, Consensus and Realism Cliché and Memory Cliche, Autobiography and Epitaph Cliché and the Language of Religion Beyond Cliché: Authority, Agency and the Fall of Rhetoric Bibliography Index