Sound is a signal. It transfers meaning from the sender to the receiver and establishes a
relationship between them, turning ideas into experience, and experience into action. An act …

A" sad and corrupt" age, a period of" crisis" and" upheaval"—what TS Eliot famously
summed up as" the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." …

In-depth analysis of key American writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This
aspect of the book is valuable to readers of the period generally and to those interested …

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic's
collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the emergence in the long nineteenth century of …

9. This institutional reception is not without its problems. As Teresia Teaiwa notes in a
chapter on Joseph Veramu and Sia Figiel, two later Pacific writers, if literature were featured …

Abstract During the 1960s, Samuel Beckett's prose work stopped sniggering about sexuality
in his mother's bedroom and began to address it in a bolder way. Although some of Beckett's …

This thesis examines how Beckett stages physical pain in his early theatre plays, arguing
that Eleutheria (1947, pub. 1995), En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (1952/1954), Fin de …

The Gothic and modernism are two highly influential, often contested modes central to the
twentieth-century imagination. From the midnineteenth century into the twentieth century, the …

Early Greek philosophers viewed laughter as a threat to order. Plato, for example, viewed
humour as an entity that would lead to an unrestrained state of self, which he despised …

The burden of Beckett's characters in Waiting for Godot lies in their inability to make
progress and in the elevated state of despair that this engenders. They represent the fallen …