"Unheard footfalls only sound" : the infinite reverberation of Samuel Beckett and Morton Feldman's neither and words and music

• Main Author: Han, Kimberly Pei Lin
• Other Authors: Chiang Hui Ling Michelle
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature; Humanities::Drama
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152500
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The difficulty of grasping Samuel Beckett and Morton Feldman’s neither — both the source text and operatic rendition of it — is found in how there is no clear indication as to what the space of ‘neither’, in which an unidentified speaker vacillates “to and fro” “two lit refuges”, may be. Where many...