{"product_id":"silence-nowhen-9781433122477","title":"Silence Nowhen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Beckett's work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett's language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust  laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno. By doing so, Chesney addresses how Beckett's works remain true, to the end, to a minimalist impulse that is essentially modernist or late modernist without giving over to the rising dominant of postmodernism. Chesney delineates a sigetics  a discourse of silence whose main strategies in Beckett are reticence and ellipsis  and through studies of \u003ci\u003eGodot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKrapp's\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039559287127,"sku":"9781433122477","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433122477.jpg?v=1750944082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/silence-nowhen-9781433122477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}