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“Not a soul in sight!”: Beckett's Fourth Wall

Davis, Nathaniel

Journal of modern literature, 2015-01, Vol.38 (2), p.86-102 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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Título:
“Not a soul in sight!”: Beckett's Fourth Wall
Autor: Davis, Nathaniel
Assuntos: 1898-1956 ; 1906-1989 ; Actors ; Alienation ; Alienation (Philosophy) ; Alienation (Social psychology) ; Analysis ; Audiences ; Auditoriums ; Austrian literature ; Beckett, Samuel ; Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) ; Brecht, Bertolt ; Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956) ; British & Irish literature ; Cameras ; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977) ; Criticism and interpretation ; Drama ; Dramatists ; Fiction ; German literature ; Glass art ; Handke, Peter ; Hauptmann, Gerhart (1862-1946) ; Irish literature ; Keaton, Buster (1895-1966) ; Literary naturalism ; Metaphysics ; Methods ; Modern literature ; Modernism ; Motion pictures ; Ontology ; Playwrights ; Playwriting ; Production and direction ; Reality ; Scripts ; Theater ; Theater production ; Theatre production ; Theatrical production
É parte de: Journal of modern literature, 2015-01, Vol.38 (2), p.86-102
Descrição: While the theatrical device of “breaking the fourth wall” has come to be seen as a characteristic technique of modernist theater, it is not often associated with the plays of Samuel Beckett — perhaps the quintessential modernist playwright. While Beckett employs the device in some of his early plays — most markedly in the lesser-known Eleutheria — he eventually moves away from anything resembling the “alienation effect” (as theorized by Bertolt Brecht), in which the fourth-wall break asserts the supremacy of objective reality over that of the dramatic fiction. In rejecting Brecht's methodology, Beckett does not, however, return to a naturalist theatrical model. In the “ failed realism” of his most successful plays, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Beckett's nuanced treatment of the fourth wall helps to present the stage as a space of complete ontological indeterminacy, reflecting the unstable metaphysics of lived experience.
Editor: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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“Not a soul in sight!”: Beckett's Fourth Wall

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