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This thesis argues that desire is a major theme in Samuel Beckett's dramatic works. Central to our analysis is Jacques Lacan's concept of the Desire for the Other, as the outcome of the human subject's division. We will investigate how desire is expressed at the level of Beckett's characters' utterance. The characters' attempts at and inability to achieve a reconciliation with their speech correlate with the impossibility of reunifying Lacan's split subject. The first part of our discussion focuses upon desire-as-paradox--the lack of will to desire and the continuation of desire--in Not I, Footfalls and Krapp's Last Tape, whereas Rockaby and That Time are indicative of the regression of desire leading toward the characters' death. The second part emphasizes the dramatic presentation of these plays, except for Footfalls. It will become clear that desire affects the performance and the audience, thus preventing them from attaining a unified perception of self and other.

2 v. ; 26 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1974

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura / Proyecto Fondecyt Iniciación 11130269

My master thesis inspects the phenomenon of anxiety in Samuel Beckett's Endgame. In this thesis, anxiety is seen from the phenomenological perspective . However, the explanation of anxiety by psychology and psychiatry is offered as well, so that more complex understanding is enabled. An analysis of Beckett's play is highly influenced by phenomenology, especially by Martin Heidegger, and also by the daseinsanalysis. In these connotations, we inspect Endgame, especially the situation of characters on the stage and the world of the play itself as a mirroring of the real world. We show that human existence is one of the most significant sources of anxiety, that it is innate to almost every human being from time to time, and that it has a remarkable dramatic potential. Although there is no final explication of Beckett's play, my thesis attempts to get closer to its understanding through the phenomenon of anxiety. As a part of this thesis, the translation of one part of Stanley Cavell's essay called Ending the Waiting Game is included, which tries to explain the meaning of Endgame in a different way.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-10T11:09:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-06-27Bitstream added on 2014-11-10T11:58:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000795419.pdf: 1895559 bytes, checksum: 489e141580aeb49a2993a507a832343a (MD5) / Nesta pesquisa investigamos como alguns artistas envolvidos na encenação de peças curtas do teatro de Samuel Beckett no Brasil lidaram com o trabalho de criação vocal das mesmas, se houve algum tipo de preparo ou não, que tipo de problemas encontraram etc. Foram entrevistados sete artistas que estiveram envolvidos em alguma montagem brasileira entre os anos de 1985 e 2012. O resultado das conversas dá uma noção de como foi o envolvimento deles com a obra beckettiana e que tipo de impacto ela teve na relação deles com a criação, sobretudo no tocante à maneira como a palavra era colocada em cena. Os relatos abriram possibilidades de reflexões acerca do papel do intérprete em um tipo de teatro rigoroso como o de Beckett, de como entendem a relação entre corpo e voz, ou como lidam com a criação de personagens, que frequentemente não parece possível dentro de uma abordagem psicológica ou realista, mas sim a partir de aspectos bem materiais da encenação, como a movimentação, a respiração, a partitura sonora e vocal. Por fim, percebemos que não houve um preparo técnico vocal específico dos artistas consultados e que a criação vocal foi compreendida como a consequência de um trabalho que engloba noções de entrega do ator, de representação e resentificação, discussões sobre formas de se trabalhar a personagem, de rituais de preparação, entre outras, abrindo campo para discutir o valor da técnica vocal no desempenho de tal tipo de teatro. / This research investigated how some Brazilian performers prepared themselves vocally to play Samuel Beckett’s short theatre. If there was some sort of preparation or not,what kind of problems encountered etc. Seven artists were interviewed who were involved in some Brazilian theatrical productions between the years 1985 and 2012. The result of these conversations gives a sense of how their involvement was with Beckett's work and what kind of impact it had on their relationship with creation particularly with regard to the way the word into the performance. The reports opened possibilities for reflections on the role of the performer in a type of rigorous theater like Beckettian theatre. Understanding how the relationship between body and voice or how they deal with the creation of characters which often does not seem possible within an approach psychological or realistic, but from material aspects of staging such as movement, breathing, sound and vocal scores. Finally, we realized that not there was a vocal specific technical preparation of the performers and the vocal creation was understood as the result of a work which encompasses notions of the commitment of the actor, representation and presentification, the discussions of ways to work the character, rituals of preparation, among others, opening the field to discuss the value of vocal technique in the performance of this kind of theater.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-02T11:16:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-09-27Bitstream added on 2014-12-02T11:21:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000738930.pdf: 808052 bytes, checksum: 6e15b2b2fe9dc1fcc89676bc9d150bfb (MD5) / A restrição de movimentos é uma das características mais marcantes das rubricas de Beckett. Confinados em cadeiras, vasos, enterrados, não podendo sentar-se, com dificuldades de andar ou de se mover, seus personagens exigem do ator um contato constante com o desconforto, portanto, para um contato concreto com o próprio corpo. Veremos por quais meios a terminologia criada pelo autor ao analisar a obra dos pintores Abraham van Velde e Gerardus van Velde, que estabelece uma polaridade fundamental entre um “olho/carrasco” e uma “coisa/vítima” ao tratar da impossibilidade da representação pictórica, serve como instrumental teórico para uma compreensão de seu projeto teatral. Para tanto, aplicaremos este modelo para investigar sua dramaturgia e sua experiência como diretor teatral, focando-nos nas singularidades do trabalho do ator / The restriction of movement is a major characteristic in Beckett’s indications to the actors. Confined in chairs, urns, or buried, not being able to sit, to walk or to move, Beckett’s characters require from the actor a constant contact with discomfort, thus, with his own body. We’ll see by wich means his terminology conceived to analyse the paintings of Abraham and Gerardus van Velde, that states a major duality between a “eye/executioner” and a “thing/victim” revealing the impossibility of pictoric representation, could be considered a valid theoretic apparatus to understand his theater. Thereunto, we will apply this model to analyse his dramaturgy and experience as a theater director, focusing in singularities of the actor’s work

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Our objective is to visualize how Beckett show us the ideas explained before in “Murphy” and how he configured them and gave them form through the story and the characters. In order to do so, we will support our analysis with the concepts presented by the theory of chaos and the ideas developed by Jacques Derrida in his theory of Deconstruction. All this in order to understand the phenomena of contradiction presented as the central element in the novel. We also will see how the symbolism present in the novel is used as a way to reinforce and clarify this phenomenon and finally we will be able to see how we can identify our human condition through this novel.

Orientador: Eric Mitchell Sabinson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T13:58:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Salmistraro_Renan_M.pdf: 708758 bytes, checksum: 70105929fb47a6129b578e18b85a13d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Malone meurt joga com a tradição realista do romance. Esse jogo reflete na criação do enredo, dos personagens e do estilo da narrativa e reflete como Beckett interpreta o que comumente é encarado como a realidade / Abstract: Malone meurt is a joke of the realistic narrative. The novel's structure - the characters, the events, and the style of the narrative - is an example of how Beckett interprets what is considered as the real world / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

In this thesis Vicente Huidobro's French "Fragment d'Altazor" (1930) and Spanish Altazor (1931) are compared with Samuel Beckett's English Imagination Dead Imagine (19B5) and French "Imagination morte imaginez" (1967) in terms of the concepts of musical and architectural scale which are common to all of these texts. While the Huidobro works maintain a primarily musical notion of scale, the Beckett texts employ a chiefly architectural one. In Huidobro, the vestigial presence of the diatonic scale in the seven Canto divisions of Altazor together with the chromatic structuring of Canto IV with its dodecaphonic repetition of "No hay tiempo que perder," foreshadow the fully realized tonic scale of the nightingale passage's (IV 193-9) emblematic acrosticism. In Beckett, scale involves measurement with respect to a radix or basic, conventional unit and is used in the precise description of the rotunda, the two figures within, and the flux of light and heat. The Beckettian scale is undercut, however, by the replacement of radices with retrograde and inverted variants. A semiotic approach has been used in the discussion of these texts since it not only foregrounds the importance of pattern as meaningful in itself, but also allows for comparison of two works according to the functioning of their meaning-systems, while permitting analysis at the local, medial, and global levels of the texts. However, in contrast to the theory of a semiotician like Michael Riffaterre, the view taken in this- thesis is that form is an extension of content. Thus the figure/ ground relationship is discussed both in terms of the scales studied and of its value as a theoretical device. Imagination Dead Imaoine/"Imaoination morte imaginez" subverts rational cross-reference by injecting multiple instabilities into the figure/ground relation. By creating a figure, the rotunda, against the backdrop of "anywhere" ("ailleurs") and then removing the figure, the Beckett text effects a realization of "Nulle part." Huidobro's texts, in contrast, employ alternation (e.g., in the tonic-chromatic-tonic scales) to arrive at a non-referential purity of language ("La pura palabra y nada mcis" --III 145). As different as these two texts are in terms of, for instance, genre, length, and diegetical features, they are similar in their refusal, commonly articulated in their use of the multidimensional patterns of scale, to delimit any one particular meaning. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate