Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett

This essay provides a critical analysis of Don DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist and Samuel Beckett’s work for television Ghost Trio. In particular it analyses the representation of time and its perception in both these works, highlighting some shared aesthetic modalities such as their attempt to depi...

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Main Author: Davide Barbuscia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-03-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7166
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description This essay provides a critical analysis of Don DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist and Samuel Beckett’s work for television Ghost Trio. In particular it analyses the representation of time and its perception in both these works, highlighting some shared aesthetic modalities such as their attempt to depict duration through a poetics of slow motion. The essay also foregrounds how both these works give narrative form to Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of ‘time as its perception’.
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spelling doaj.art-26da341b4ee6495abb9457a9481dfb172022-12-22T01:19:44ZengFirenze University PressStudi Irlandesi2239-39782013-03-012210.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-1242810873Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel BeckettDavide BarbusciaThis essay provides a critical analysis of Don DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist and Samuel Beckett’s work for television Ghost Trio. In particular it analyses the representation of time and its perception in both these works, highlighting some shared aesthetic modalities such as their attempt to depict duration through a poetics of slow motion. The essay also foregrounds how both these works give narrative form to Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of ‘time as its perception’.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7166
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Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett
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title Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett
title_full Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett
title_fullStr Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett
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title_short Tempo e percezione in <em>The Body Artist</em> di Don DeLillo e <em>Ghost Trio</em> di Samuel Beckett
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