Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay examines Samuel Beckett’s spatialisation of concepts in his one cinematic work Film and applies this to a consideration of his use of the principle of juxtaposition and, relatedly, the expressive technique of parataxis in a range of post-War dramatic works. It argues that these dominant structural and stylistic modes undergird the focus on “poverty, failure, exile and loss” that Beckett articulated after his self-revelation in Foxrock, Dublin in 1945. KEYWORDS: juxtaposition; parataxis; exile; Film; Samuel Beckett
DOI: 10.13136/ma4zsq38
Author: Spence, Barry Allen
Institution: Smith College
Language: English
Topic: Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7117447835
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