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02168aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 F9C5DC341D7611EA83B92C1397128E48 003 SILO 005 20191213010258 008 181025t20192019stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1474430252 020 $a 9781474430258 035 $a (OCoLC)1057777184 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EYM $d OCLCF $d NNY $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d LML $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6003.E382 $b Z57653 2019 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Boulter, Jonathan, $d 1967- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001036302 245 10 $a Posthuman space in Samuel Beckett's short prose / $c Jonathan Boulter. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 222 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Other Becketts 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index. 520 $a "Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the posthuman subject in his short prose. These texts are utterly compelling yet notoriously difficult because of Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. They offer an image of a being who may be posthumous, or at least existing in a state of nostalgia for what has been lost, yet the narrators still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world"--Back cover. 600 10 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00035621 650 0 $a Human beings in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006112 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 830 0 $a Other Becketts. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015170742 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213023220.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9C5DC341D7611EA83B92C1397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search