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Book SynopsisProviding one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this book demonstrates how Beckett's poetry reconfigures lyrical language, while also providing a new context for his experiments in poetic form by reading him alongside nineteenth and twentieth century European poets such as Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Montale, and Apollinaire.
Offering the reader a new way of reading Samuel Beckett's poetry, this book studies Beckett''s poems'' complex interactions between subjectivity, lyrical language, and human voice. Beckett employs lyric tactics that range from deixis, parataxis, and caesura to specific kinds of voicing, muting, and punctuation, tactics this book analyses under the rubric of lyric failure'. Beckett uses these tactics to situate the human subject and poetics between life/death, event/non-event, and beginning/ending.
Giving an in-depth view of Beckett's poetry beyond the usual comparisons with his p
