Academic Journal
Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater
| العنوان: | Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater |
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| المؤلفون: | Anna Street |
| المصدر: | Sillages Critiques, Vol 30 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte", 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:American literature LCC:English literature |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | comic, Samuel Beckett, comedy, Arthur Adamov, Theatre of the Absurd, American literature, PS1-3576, English literature, PR1-9680 |
| الوصف: | Through selected close readings from plays by Arthur Adamov and Samuel Beckett, this article examines how language is herein used against itself to expose the impossibility of meaninglessness. By replacing significance with mere surface sounds, language emerges from these plays as a carrier of unexpected—and inescapable—meaning. Tracing a series of comic reversal techniques common to both Adamov and Beckett, famously grouped together under the moniker Theater of the Absurd, the author demonstrates how the attempt to deprive words of sense-making is repetitiously usurped by other sensory elements which doggedly invest the striving for senselessness with profound ambiguity, against all odds. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English French |
| تدمد: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |
| Relation: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/11455; https://doaj.org/toc/1272-3819; https://doaj.org/toc/1969-6302 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/sillagescritiques.11455 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a00e5d23841f4751b8c906fed0fbcb8a |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.00e5d23841f4751b8c906fed0fbcb8a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 12723819 19696302 |
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| DOI: | 10.4000/sillagescritiques.11455 |