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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Autor principal:	Anna Street
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2021
Materias:	Arthur Adamov Samuel Beckett comedy comic Theatre of the Absurd American literature PS1-3576 English literature PR1-9680
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:be460eca7a494947ad295e180b2839502021-12-02T11:28:00ZComedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater1272-38191969-630210.4000/sillagescritiques.11455https://doaj.org/article/be460eca7a494947ad295e180b2839502021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/11455https://doaj.org/toc/1272-3819https://doaj.org/toc/1969-6302Through 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 unexpected—and inescapable—meaning. Tracing a series of comic reversal techniques common to both Adamov and Beckett, famously grouped together under the moniker Theater of the Absurd, the author demonstrates how the attempt to deprive words of sense-making is repetitiously usurped by other sensory elements which doggedly invest the striving for senselessness with profound ambiguity, against all odds.Anna StreetCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"articleArthur AdamovSamuel BeckettcomedycomicTheatre of the AbsurdAmerican literaturePS1-3576English literaturePR1-9680ENFRSillages Critiques, Vol 30 (2021)
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description	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 unexpected—and inescapable—meaning. Tracing a series of comic reversal techniques common to both Adamov and Beckett, famously grouped together under the moniker Theater of the Absurd, the author demonstrates how the attempt to deprive words of sense-making is repetitiously usurped by other sensory elements which doggedly invest the striving for senselessness with profound ambiguity, against all odds.
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Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater

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