Samuel Beckett and Modernism

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• MUHİTTİN ATAMAN

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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot which is a renowned play written after the World War II primarily focuses on its postwar-period characters. The play is categorized into "Theatre of the Absurd", and several studies were conducted on the post-war period and its impressions in the play. Besides, it called forth many s…

• İSMET TOKSÖZ

This article is a comparative study of Waiting for Godot (1948) by Samuel Beckett and Clinton Godson (1970) by Leyla Erbil. The first one is an absurd play; the second one is a short absurd story that the traditional forms in modern literature were rejected. In this study focused on the concepts absurdity and meaningl…

• ELMAS ŞAHİN

This study aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s Endgame as an absurdist play considering certain aspects and characteristics of this kind of drama such as silence, pause, repetitions, no story or plot, no recognizable or definable decor, unconventional dialogue and interest in global and universal problems rather than con…

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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies the spirit of the age by using defamiliarization as a textual strategy by means of which the characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertaint…

• MAHMUT YASİN DEMİR

This article examines the interaction between the familiar and the eerie, as theorized by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in his essay “The Uncanny” (1919), and to what extent such an interaction may have been represented in the barren and post-apocalyptic setting of Samuel Beckett’s (1906-1989) Endgame (1957). Freud’s conc…

• MEHMET AKİF BALKAYA

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An absurdist play entitled Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) has had received many interpretations and criticism covering a wide range of issues since its first premiere in 1953 in the Theâtre de Babylone, Paris. The play offers varying approaches for appreciating the significance of historical context i…

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This paper investigates the strategies of language-use in James Joyce's “The Dead” and the relationship between these strategies and the prominent themes of the story, such as subjectivity, nationalism and literature. Using a Heideggerian approach, it understands the story as a series of linguistic incidents and encou…

• MUSTAFA AHMET SÜNER