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Beckett and Eros

Name: Beckett and Eros
Author: Paul Davies
ISBN: 9780333681626

by Paul Davies

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Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanism explores Beckett's tragic projection in which spiritual, political, and gender experience are combined, exposing the erroneous operations of Cartesian awareness which become sexualized in the dramatic gender conflict in myth and literature. Beckett and Eros is the first book in 25 years to give an answer to the question, "Do we mean love when we say love? ... soul when we say soul?"; Davies' approach offers a startling point for valuable dialogue between radical new age thought and the postmodernism of academe.

About the Author, Paul Davies

Paul Davies is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, UK.

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Davies (English, U. of Ulster) examines not only gender identity, but also the questioning of all identity whatsoever and the history of the soul in relation to these identities in the work of playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-89). Proposing a mythopoetics of sex with which to explore the plays, he looks at Elysium of the roofless, the descent of the soul, Mrs. Rooney at the mouth of creation, open sky mind, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)