At the Crossroads of Memory and Imagination: a Poetic Image of a Window at Night in Samuel Beckett’s "A Piece of Monologue"
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Antropova, Svetlana
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2021Citation
Antropova, S. (2021). At the Crossroads of Memory and Imagination: a Poetic Image of a Window at Night in Samuel Beckett’s "A Piece of Monologue". ACTIO NOVA: Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (5), 93–117. https://doi.org/10.15366/actionova2021.5.005
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El objetivo principal de esta investigación es analizar la imagen poética de la ventana abierta hacia la noche, así como el escenario espectral de habitación en la obra teatral de Samuel Beckett A Piece of Monologue, utilizando el enfoque binario de Poética del Espacio de Gastón Bachelard y la biografía de Beckett. La ventana ausente en el escenario, que es parte del mundo imaginario del Orador, se convierte en el nexo de esta obra corta y se analiza con respecto a su locus, los recuerdos del es ... The pivotal objective of this research is to analyse a poetic image of an imaginary window at night as well as a “ghost” room in Samuel Beckett’s play A Piece of Monologue through the binary lens of Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, and Beckett’s biography. An absent onstage window, being part of an imagined reality created by the Speaker, becomes the nexus of this short play, and is discussed in relation to its locus, the writer’s memory, and material imagination. Tightly linked to Becke ...
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