Beschreibung
Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Beckett’s work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett’s language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust – laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno.
Autorenportrait
Duncan McColl Chesney is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University and has published on various literary, cinematic, and film theoretical topics including pieces on Proust, Faulkner, Joyce, Coetzee, and Visconti. He was a recipient of a Wu Da-You Award for young scholars from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2012 and continues to pursue research and teaching interests in comparative European modernism, literary theory, film studies, and modern British, Commonwealth, and Irish literatures.
