Beckettian

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• By contrast, it is often difficult to pin down the source of the Beckettian character's laughter or to join in with it.

  Academic text (2017)

• Our analysis of how the Beckettian laugh functions as a self-defensive gesture.

  Academic text (2017)

• Other Beckettian texts are replete with instances of characters laughing at the sight or thought of suffering.

  Academic text (2017)

• Beckettian laughter complicates the way we define the nature and limits of the human.

  Academic text (2017)

• Unexpected laughter is a crucial means by which both Gothic and Beckettian texts render certain figures simultaneously.

  Academic text (2017)

• The laughing Beckettian subject offers gradations of the human rather than a strict binary division between the human and the non-human.

  Academic text (2017)

• In connection with Beckett, Ihab Hassan emphasizes that the Beckettian ideas are finally metaphors of the human condition.

  Academic text (1999)

• Secondly, Beckettian laughter disconcerts by triggering the reader's or spectator's laughter at unexpected or inappropriate moments.

  Academic text (2017)

• Yet imposing too rosy an interpretation on this new identity disregards the distinctly disconcerting effect of the laughing Beckettian creature.

  Academic text (2017)

• The Beckettian laugher is frequently both monstrous and human, replicating Baudelaire's idea of laughter as simultaneously human and Satanic.

  Academic text (2017)

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology