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Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

By Mantra Mukim, Daniel Katz (Editor), Steven Yao (Editor)
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By Mantra Mukim, Daniel Katz (Editor), Steven Yao (Editor)
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Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth and twentieth century European poets such as Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Montale, and Apollinaire, the book situates failure in the triangulation of the lyric impulse, subjectivity, and the human voice.

Beckett, in his poems, employs lyric tactics that range from deixis, parataxis, and caes...

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