Over the course of his life Beckett's work moves through a process of reduction toward increasing simplicity and concentration of means. 1 trace this reduction in Beckett's later works for the stage and compare it with the dialectics of negative theology, both Buddhist and Orthodox Christian, paying particular attention to structures of visuality and iconicity (both visual and not) in Beckett's work. The visual enjoyed a status of peculiar ontological primacy for Beckett. In it he saw exemplified both the dualisms he worked to overcome throughout his career and the saving grace that will overcome them: a "breathless immediacy" (Beckett's words) that will skip the mediation of language and the linearity of discourse and present exquisitely balanced, essentially still, nondual images. Beckett's metaphorical, that is, vertically structured stage images are subtended by metonymic texts that run through a strategic process of self-emptying in a kind of kenosis of discourse. The aporetic figures thus produced form similarly iconic structures on the textual level as can be found on the visual level. In Beckett's horizontal world a displaced sacramentalism and a phenomenologically motivated process of enquiry into the nature of things combine to create an empty space, a gray area through which the divine can enter if the audience is inclined to make such an act of faith. Beckett creates an art of Erfahrung that leads to a confrontation with an Other beyond the limits of a reductive concept of instrumental reason.

Nos proponemos demostrar que la experiencia del tedio (ennui, spleen) en la obra de Samuel Beckett, bajo una forma que identificamos como el spleen difícilmente conjurable, fragiliza gravemente la vieja idea de la ―melancolía poética‖, una de las ideas estéticas más importantes para entender el proceso de auto-comprensión emocional del genio artístico y literario moderno. Ello es así no sólo porque el escritor irlandés reelabora esporádica y negativamente las figuras y tipos más característicos de su imaginario tradicional, sino sobre todo porque la mayor negatividad que exhibe ese malestar temporal en su obra se transformaría en la fuente de una escritura paradójica, en la que persistencia en la escritura es indisociable de un sentimiento de aguda insuficiencia del lenguaje, la pérdida de evidencia de los materiales artísticos y la impotencia de la subjetividad creadora para elaborar o sublimar la tristeza que la moviliza. Proponemos reconocer en esto una ―melancolía poética‖ de signo nuevo y una formación particularmente negativa de la siempre frágil coyuntura entre la inspiración y el extravío, es decir, entre los aspectos positivos o productivos de la melancolía y sus aspectos negativos o improductivos

The purposes of this thesis are two-fold-: 1) in light of the information which is now available, to record accurately the events of the long newspaper career of Samuel L. Clemens; and, 2) to attempt to assess the influence of his journalistic experiences on him as a man, as an observer of humanity, as a reporter fulfilling his assignments, as a developing artist, and as a future author of books.

This thesis examines the relationship between Samuel Clemens and his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens. It is apparent that Samuel was strongly influenced by his mother in his personality, appearance, and beliefs; but of greater importance is the influence she exerted on the literary creations of Mark Twain.

It is the purpose of this study to (1) produce a play in an expressionistic style; (2) submit a thesis of analysis; and (3) present the thesis in such a way as to show that an expressionistic style can be applied to a play written for the professional stage in a creative, artistic manner.

The new elements in "The Ancient Mariner" were partly responsible for the unfavorable early reviews which vary much from the high praise the poem receives today. The purpose of this study is to record critical opinion of the poem from the contemporary reviews of 1798 to the intensive critical analysis of the 1960's.

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Diss.--Wien--Wiener Universität, 2000. / Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. 169-184.

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