01802nam a2200313 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082002000131100002600151245006800177264004700245300001400292336002600306337002800332338002700360520090100387650004801288650002501336650002601361650001201387650002001399650002401419650001401443650003101457281230InACL20260927135907.0260927s1994    xxu               0 eng d  a9780195088922  a0195088921  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a842.91bBEC2231 aBrater, Enocheauthor14aThe drama in the text :bBeckett's late fiction /cEnoch Brater 1aNew York :bOxford University Press,c1994  a233 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIn this rich and perceptive study of some of the most haunting fiction written in the late twentieth century, Beckett critic Enoch Brater continues his investigation of the tension between text and script, silence and associational sound. Brater argues with great learning that Beckett's fiction, like his radio plays, demands to be read aloud, since much of the emotional meaning lodges in its tonality.Here the rhythm of Beckett's "labouring heart" finds its performative voice as the reader, now turned listener, collaborates in the creation of a musical composition that must elucidate the stillness of the universe.The Drama in the Text is a book about reciting and recounting, about how we know and what we know when we read a lyrical "text" crafted in prose but sounding like something else instead. Brater ranges across all of Beckett's work, quoting from it liberally, and makes connecti 0aBeckett, Samuel, 1906-  -- Fictional works. 0aOral interpretation. 0aFiction -- Technique. 0aFiction 0aFictional works 0aOral interpretation 0aTechnique 0aBeckett, samuel, 1906-1989