Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(English, Hardcover, Uhlmann Anthony)

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Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(English, Hardcover, Uhlmann Anthony) is written by Uhlmann Anthony and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521865204 (ISBN 10) and 9780521865203 (ISBN 13).

Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them in his plays, or using them in his fiction. Anthony Uhlmann sets out to explain how an image differs from other terms, like 'metaphor' or 'representation', and, in the process, to analyse Beckett's use of images borrowed from philosophy and aesthetics. This study, first published in 2006, carefully examines Beckett's thoughts on the image in his literary works and his extensive notes to the philosopher Arnold Geulincx. Uhlmann considers how images might allow one kind of interaction between philosophy and literature, and how Beckett makes use of images which are borrowed from, or drawn into dialogue with, philosophical images from Geulincx, Berkeley, Bergson, and the ancient Stoics. Uhlmann's reading of Beckett's aesthetic and philosophical interests provides a revolutionary reading of the importance of the image in his work.