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4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho
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Steven Miller
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction (i.e., the death drive) 1
- 1. Statues Also Die 18
- 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man 51
- 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive 84
- 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho 116
- 5. The Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the War of Language against Itself 143
- Afterword 174
- Notes 187
- Bibliography 217
- Index 227
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction (i.e., the death drive) 1
- 1. Statues Also Die 18
- 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man 51
- 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive 84
- 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho 116
- 5. The Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the War of Language against Itself 143
- Afterword 174
- Notes 187
- Bibliography 217
- Index 227
