Contouring the Essence of Nothingness in Beckett's Texts for
Nothing

D 2023

Contouring the Essence of Nothingness in Beckett's Texts for Nothing

KOKH, Mariia

Basic information

Original name

Contouring the Essence of Nothingness in Beckett's Texts for Nothing

Authors

KOKH, Mariia (804 Ukraine, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vydání. Olomouc, Studentská literárněvědná konference 2022 : Sborník vybraných příspěvků ze Studentské literárněvědné konference konané na FF UP v Olomouci ve dnech 4.–5. 5. 2022. p. 93-98, 6 pp. 2023

Publisher

Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00132806

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-244-6316-2

Keywords in English

Nothingness; texts; context; meaninglessness; expression; Samuel Beckett

Abstract

V originále

On the international literary scene Samuel Beckett has, to a considerable degree, established himself as a connoisseur of nothingness. Although this fact manifests itself primarily through his dramas, even a cursory glance at Beckett’s prose works would enable the reader to uncover mentioned problem in an unapologetically explicit context. This work is devoted to the outlining of the essence of nothingness in Samuel Beckett’s collection Texts for Nothing. Basing on the series of thirteen texts, it analyzes the core of the named concept not only from the semantical and contextual viewpoint, but also linguistically. The language is being put under scrutiny both in terms of the narrator’s language competence and, generally, as a phenomenon and namely as the contour for delineating the essence of the notion as abstract as “nothing” – if not innately given, then obtained in the process of interpretation. The analysis also takes into the account such problematic aspects as the assumed, inherently impossible expression of nothingness and the failure of verbalization brought about by such process.

Links

MUNI/A/1054/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III

Investor: Masaryk University, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III

Citovat

KOKH, Mariia. Contouring the Essence of Nothingness in Beckett's Texts for Nothing. In Machala, Lubomír; Korhoňová, Jitka. Studentská literárněvědná konference 2022 : Sborník vybraných příspěvků ze Studentské literárněvědné konference konané na FF UP v Olomouci ve dnech 4.–5. 5. 2022. 1. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2023, p. 93-98. ISBN 978-80-244-6316-2.

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KOKH, Mariia. Contouring the Essence of Nothingness in Beckett's Texts for Nothing. In Machala, Lubomír; Korhoňová, Jitka. \textit{Studentská literárněvědná konference 2022 : Sborník vybraných příspěvků ze Studentské literárněvědné konference konané na FF UP v Olomouci ve dnech 4.–5. 5. 2022.}. 1. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2023, p.~93-98. ISBN~978-80-244-6316-2.

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