Glitches in Logic in Beckett's Watt: Toward a Sensory Poetics.
Watt, Samuel Beckett's 'anti-logical' interwar novel, is generally recognized as a parody of the binary oppositions that underlie logical systems. This article moves beyond readings of Watt as a pastiche of logical positivism or as the sign of rationalism's exhaustion to argue that the novel's 'glit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 103 - 117 |
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