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003			InACL
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008			260927s1994 xxu 0 eng d
020			_a9780195088922
020			_a0195088921
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a842.91 _bBEC _223
100	1		_aBrater, Enoch _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe drama in the text : _bBeckett's late fiction / _cEnoch Brater
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1994
300			_a233 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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
650		0	_aBeckett, Samuel, 1906- -- Fictional works.
650		0	_aOral interpretation.
650		0	_aFiction -- Technique.
650		0	_aFiction
650		0	_aFictional works
650		0	_aOral interpretation
650		0	_aTechnique
650		0	_aBeckett, samuel, 1906-1989
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