Bridging Music and Language in Samuel Beckett Ghost Trio and Nacht und Trume

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Lucy Jeffrey

关键词: Samuel Beckett;    Music and Literature;    Beethoven;    Schubert;    Deconstructivism;    Suffering;    Aporia;    Repetition;    Nothingness;    Endlessness;    Ineffability;    Modernism;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

Beckett use of music in his late teleplays Ghost Trio and Nacht und Trume forms part of his aesthetics of failure. This paper explores Beckett compositional style and asks how and why his use of music complicates the overall shape of the work. Beckett at once fragments and loops extracts of Beethoven and Schubert to dictate the thoughts and movements of Figure and Dreamer, the protagonists in these plays. Music temporal form and spatial realisations are considered in relation to Dreamer and Figure memories and sense of imprisonment. Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are employed to unpack this entropic and purposely unsettling form.

【 授权许可】

CC BY