Reference, inference and the semantics of pejoratives by Williamson, T

Negative modernism: Beckett’s poetics of pejorism and literary enactment by Van Hulle, D

“…To explore the philosophical prehistory of what could be termed Beckett’s negative modernism, it first discusses the ‘epiphanic’ modernism of his more canonical predecessors and then traces the contours of Beckett’s own poetics of ‘pejorism’ (a term he coined in the margins of his copy of Olga Plümacher’s Der Pessimismus and in his ‘Whoroscope’ Notebook) to examine how his negative modernism is enacted in his works.…”