“‘These old P.M.s are gruesome’: Post-mortem Poetics in Beckett’s Late Plays”

The essay examines Beckett’s affiliation with the concept of lateness and lastness and it offers an original reading of What Where by focusing on its enigmatic opening line “we are the last five”. In te light of Beckett's  “rip word” Beckett’s figures appears  as “post-human to the extent that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keir Elam
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2014-12-01
Series:CoSMO
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Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/826