Beckett, Biopolitics and the Problem of Life

The question and concept of ‘Life’ in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre has had a long, complicated and submerged trajectory: from existentialist attributions of radical freedom, to post-structuralist engagements with an ethics of dying and weakness and further to

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Beckett and Politics Edited by William Davies · Helen Bailey

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Series Editors Claire A. Culleton Department of English Kent State University Kent, OH, USA Kelly Matthews Department of English Framingham State University Framingham, MA, USA

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature promotes fresh scholarship that explores models of Irish and Irish American identity and examines issues that address and shape the contours of Irishness and works that investigate the fluid, shifting, and sometimes multivalent discipline of Irish Studies. Politics, the academy, gender, and Irish and Irish American culture, among other things, have not only inspired but affected recent scholarship centered on Irish and Irish American literature. The series’s focus on Irish and Irish American literature and culture contributes to our twenty-first century understanding of Ireland, America, Irish Americans, and the creative, intellectual, and theoretical spaces between.

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William Davies · Helen Bailey Editors

Beckett and Politics

Editors William Davies University of Reading Reading, UK

Helen Bailey Loughborough College of Further and Higher Education Loughborough, UK

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