Non-verbal gestures in Samuel Beckett's plays.
Do we mean love, when we say love?” Extracted from Samuel Beckett’s radio play, Words and Music, this question sets the direction for this paper as we seek to examine the relationship between love and (non)-language in four of Beckett’s plays, namely, Waiting for Godot (1952), Endgame (1957...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52249 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Do we mean love, when we say love?” Extracted from Samuel Beckett’s radio play,
Words and Music, this question sets the direction for this paper as we seek to examine the
relationship between love and (non)-language in four of Beckett’s plays, namely, Waiting for
Godot (1952), Endgame (1957), Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) and Words and Music (1962).
What is love? What exactly are we trying to express when we speak of love? Is it remotely
possible to encapsulate the meaning of a theme such as love within the realm of language? |
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