Abstract
Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist can be read as manifestations of a point of crisis in both authors' careers. My major contention in this paper is the importance of a project of diminishment in both texts. This project of diminishment is predicated on a process of transformation of and rupture to both narrative structure and linguistic style, which in turn creates texts that interrogate the notion of representation and artistic creation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Literature and Sensation |
| Editors | Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan, Stephen McLaren |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars |
| Pages | 215-226 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781443801164 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- literature