Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism

Humility and Humiliation

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AvRick de Villiers,University of the Free State) de Villiers, Rick (Lecturer in English at the University of the Free State, South Africa

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Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett share an imperfect likeness. Between them is a common interest in states of abjection, shame and suffering – and possible responses to such states. Tracing the relation between negative affect, ethics, and aesthetics, Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism demonstrates how these two major modernists recuperate the affinity between humility and humiliation - concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-05
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt516 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOther Becketts
Antal sidor264
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474479035
UtmärkelserCommended for Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Prize 2023

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Abbreviations and conventions Acknowledgements IntroductionFat fingers and private truths: between manners and morals in Eeldrop and AppleplexPudenda of the psyche: embarrassment in More Pricks than KicksMr. Eliot’s sermons and sermonising: participation, good will, and humility in Murder in the CathedralA defence of wretchedness: Molloy and humiliationAssuming the double part: Irony as humility in East Coker How It Is and the syntax of penuryConclusion: humility’s edges Bibliography Index

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