On Fragments: A Piece of Art and the “I” – or Not
On Fragments: A Piece of Art and the “I” – or Not
Author(s): Stanley E. GontarskiSubject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Semiotics / Semiology, Music, Visual Arts, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Sociology, French Literature, 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy of Law, Culture and social structure , Psychoanalysis, Cultural Essay, Theory of Literature, Ontology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: fragments; Modernism; Romanticism; ontology; metonymy; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Immanuel Kant; Julia Kristeva; Slavoj Žižek
Summary/Abstract: This essay explores the philosophical implications inherent in Samuel Beckett’s most enigmatic and metonymic late theater work, Not I, even as he frequently abjured any interest in philosophy, which he claimed neither to read nor to understand. The play is profoundly ontological, however, and its metonymic stage image engages the classical philosophical conundrum of the relationship of the part, a piece or fragment, say, to the whole, an issue with which Beckett has at least been intrigued for most of his creative life.
Journal: Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica
- Issue Year: 8/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 1-16
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
