Deconstruction | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of Deconstruction.

Deconstruction | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of Deconstruction.
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SOURCE: Butler, Lance St. John. “Beckett's Stage of Deconstruction.” In Twentieth-Century European Drama, edited by Brian Docherty, pp. 63-77. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Butler examines deconstructive elements in several plays by Beckett, suggesting that in them Beckett attempts to “escape … from the tyranny of the signifier.”

Beckett is the poet of the poststructuralist age. In his plays, as in all his work, we are offered something like a version of the world according to Derrida. Where Beckett has already given up the search for determinable meaning, in the 1940s and 1950s, as a vain pursuit, poststructuralism would proclaim, in the 1960s and 1970s, the ultimately undecidable nature of meaning, and would celebrate meaninglessness as an objective correlative for a new vision of the world.

Beckett started as a Modernist, offering in the poem Whoroscope, of 1929, and in the stories More Pricks Than Kicks...

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