Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze

by S. E. Gontarski

Overview

Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze focuses on a force, on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett intersects with such preoccupations of time as a "double headed monster," of memory and multiplicity, of being and becoming that continue in an involutionary turn through the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474447362
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	11/13/2018
Series:	Other Becketts
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; I: "All the dead voices": A Preface; II: "A mixed choir" from the Ditch of Astonishment: An Introduction; Anteriors; III: The Invention of the Modern: A Symbiotic Remapping; Chapter IV: "Thought thinks in its own right": A. A. Luce, Samuel Beckett, and Bergson's Doctrine of Failure; Interiors; V: Towards a Creative Involution and Transcendental Empiricism; VI: "What it is to have been": Movement, Multiplicity, and Representation; VII: A Theatre of Deterritorialization and The Questions We Ask; VIII: Beyond the Shadow: Acts of Unceasing Creation; Posteriors; IX: Becoming Degree Zero: Authors Vanishing into the Zone of Indiscernibility

What People are Saying About This

University of Bristol - Dr Ulrika Maude

A book on Beckett and Bergson is long overdue. Creative Involution offers a new and exciting angle that is of crucial importance to the understanding of the author's work. This groundbreaking monograph is a notable contribution to Beckett studies.

Editorial Reviews

A book on Beckett and Bergson is long overdue. Creative Involution offers a new and exciting angle that is of crucial importance to the understanding of the author's work. This groundbreaking monograph is a notable contribution to Beckett studies.

University of Bristol - Dr Ulrika Maude

Gontarski, one of our finest Beckett scholars, presents a rich plethora of speculative contexts...

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature, 4 - Jacek Gutorow