Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater

Through selected close readings from plays by Arthur Adamov and Samuel Beckett, this article examines how language is herein used against itself to expose the impossibility of meaninglessness. By replacing significance with mere surface sounds, language emerges from these plays as a carrier of unexp...

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Main Author: Anna Street
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2021-10-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/11455
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