The Princess Grace Irish library lectures
3 primary works
Book 2
Language and Structure in Beckett's Plays
by Clive Hart and Constantin-George Sandulescu
Published 1 October 1986
Explores how Beckett modifies the fundamental structure of the outward and return journey by reducing it to obsessive repetitions getting nowhere. Hart begins by examining the large structural patterns of the plays to which he then relates the details of Beckett's language. Describing Beckett's voice, Hart analyses the stress on falling cadences, evocative of despair. He concludes by suggesting that, however depressing the content of the plays, they generate intense aesthetic delight. A detailed bibliography of Beckett's works is also included.
Book 5
Book 8
In the first essay Goldman explores Synge's journeys to the Aran islands, illustrates Synge's development of perception and understanding, and shows how his experiences among local islanders influenced his later work. In the second, the author explains the influence of Joyce and Vico on interpretations of linguistics, covering the recent cyclic development of linguistics from Chomsky through Grice to Seuren.