Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze

That Modernism Is Inherently Transgressive, Amorphous, Protean - That It Is A 'breaking Things Open, Breaking Words Open', As Gilles Deleuze Suggests Is One Of The Tenets Of This Study. Modernism Can Be Said To Blur Distinctions Radically, Between Past And Present, Between Interior And Exterior, Between Being And Becoming, An Inward Turn That We Call 'involution' Creative Involution Uncovers New Ways Of Understanding This Philosophical Trajectory, One That Not Only Had A Profound Impact On Philosophy And Critical Theory, But On Both Cosmopolitan, Contemporary Culture More Broadly And On Artistic Experiment And Expression In Particular. The Principle Line Followed Through This Study Begins With Henri Bergson's Rethinking Of Time, Memory And The Ancillary Issues Of Perception And Consciousness That Revolutionized Philosophical, Artistic And Performance Theory Early In The Twentieth Century. It Explores How The Work Of Samuel Beckett Shares Bergson's Obsessions, With Time As A 'double Headed Monster', With Memory And Multiplicity, With Being And Becoming - Preoccupations That Continue To Reverberate Through The Work Of Gilles Deleuze. Key Features: Deploys New Critical Approaches (a Return To Bergson And Bergsnoism. In Particular), Addresses Underexplored Works In The Beckett Canon, Presents New Critiques Of Representation And Of Beckett's Relationship To Philosophy, Attentive To Critical Thinking Around Theory And/in Literature. Other Becketts: Series Preface -- Abbreviations For Works By Samuel Beckett -- Acknowledgements -- 1. 'all The Dead Voices': A Preface -- 2. 'a Mixed Choir' From The Ditch Of Astonishment: An Introduction -- Anteriors -- 3. The Invention Of The Modern: A Symbiotic Remapping -- 4. 'thought Thinks In Its Own Right': A. A. Luce, Samuel Beckett And Bergson's Doctrine Of Failure -- Interiors -- 5. Towards A Creative Involution -- 6. 'what It Is To Have Been': Movement, Multiplicity And Representation -- 7. Beyond The Shadow: Acts Of Unceasing Creation -- 8. A Theatre Of Deterritorialization And The Questions -- Posteriors -- 9. Becoming Degree Zero: Authors Vanishing Into The Zone Of Imperceptibility -- Index S.e. Gontarski. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.