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Norris, Claire L.

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Samuel Beckett and trauma: Laughter and tears (Ireland).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Samuel Beckett and trauma: Laughter and tears (Ireland)./
Author:	Norris, Claire L.
Description:	399 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0510.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3120713
ISBN:	0496680681

Samuel Beckett and trauma: Laughter and tears (Ireland).
Norris, Claire L.

Samuel Beckett and trauma: Laughter and tears (Ireland). - 399 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0510.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

This study focuses on Beckett's life and texts and questions the effect of trauma, laughter, tears, and writing to determine if the personal traumas in Beckett's life, increased by cultural and historical crises, are key to his work as well as his life. Beckett's concept of the risus pursus---the laugh which laughs at that which is unhappy---was crucial to the study in that Beckett himself recognized the blurring between tears and laughter and the importance of both in life. This dissertation begins by examining Beckett's life and highlighting personal traumas and crises as welt as referring to cultural and historical crises (such as World War II) that would also have affected Beckett. Then the focus turns to Beckett's texts and examines instances of trauma within them as well as focusing especially upon autobiographical references and allusions. There are many personal connections between Beckett and his texts; both explicit and more oblique references to his life and experiences are made. This dissertation provides a suggestion and thesis for this, arguing that the close relation was extremely important for Beckett, his "healing" and his work.

ISBN: 0496680681Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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