Resonance and Self-resonance: Gilles Deleuze's Involuntary Memory in Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett
| Thesis title in Czech: | „Rezonance a seberezonance – Mimovolní paměť Gillese Deleuze u Marcela Prousta a Samuela Becketta“ |
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| Thesis title in English: | Resonance and Self-resonance: Gilles Deleuze's Involuntary Memory in Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett |
| Key words: | Gilles Deleuze|Samuel Beckett|Marcel Proust|Mimovolná paměť|Znaky|Reminiscence|Resonance|Hledání ztraceného času|Proust a znaky|Nietzsche a filozofie|Tisíc plošin|Molloy|Malone umírá|Nepojmenovatelný |
| English key words: | Gilles Deleuze|Samuel Beckett|Marcel Proust|Involuntary memory|Signs|Reminiscence|Resonance|In Search of Lost Time|Proust and Signs|Nietzsche and philosophy|Thousand Plateaus|Molloy|Malone Dies|The Unnamable |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2014/2015 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | prof. PhDr. Martin Procházka, CSc. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 16.12.2014 |
| Date of assignment: | 16.12.2014 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 30.01.2015 |
| Date and time of defence: | 11.09.2017 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 16.08.2017 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 11.09.2017 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by worker on behalf on and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The main focus of my thesis will aim at a contrast between two works. On one hand, it will be Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as viewed by Gilles Deleuze, on the other, Samuel Beckett’s trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The contrast will be dissected on a basis of Deleuze’s notion of “involuntary memory” which he derives out of his analysis of Proust’s narrative. Hence the thesis will investigate the “involuntary memory” and its signs of “reminiscence” and “resonance” in Beckett’s hands, which will be compared with their distribution in Proust, for the different aspects of the “involuntary,” which reveals the schizoid narrator, may correspond with Deleuze’s redefinition of Essence that is characterized by its primordial schizophrenic setting. Therefore, it will be indispensable to point out how varied the “involuntary memory” and signs of “reminiscence” and “resonance” in their narratives are.Finally, chiefly in the case of Beckett, there will be an emphasis put on language through which the signs of “reminiscence” resonate too.
The structure of the thesis will consist of four main parts. In order to introduce the readers with the theory of Gilles Deleuze, the first chapter will include the introduction into Deleuze’s redefinition of Essence and its revelation in the work of art. Further, the view will be zoomed in to the concrete revelation through the “involuntary, reminiscence and “resonance” in Proust’s novels. The third chapter will eventually examine the aforementioned terms in Beckett’s novels, as well as the comparison and contrast with their use in Proust; in Beckett, interestingly enough, due to the narrator’s constant self-awareness, the “resonance” is revealed somewhere else than in Proust. To describe Beckett’s “resonance,” the very last part will be worked out on Jacques Lacan and his sinthome that will help in understanding language in Beckett’s use, but also that will connect Deleuze with Lacan and hereby leave the subject open for a further work on the problematic of language and writing. The thesis will thus create a space and propping for the research of the problematic nature of the subject of the writer as such. |
| References |
| Primary literature:
Beckett, Samuel. 1951. The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Proust, Marcel. 1922-1931. In Search of Lost Time Secondary literature: Badiou, Alan. 2003. On Beckett. Bloom, Harold, ed. 2011. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Samuel Beckett. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix. 1972. Anti-oedipus. Deleuze, Gilles. 1997. Essays Critical and Clinical. Deleuze, Gilles. 2000. Proust and Signs Deleuze, Gilles. 1969. The Logic of Sense. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix. 1980. Tisíc plošin. Dowd, Garin. 2007. Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari Freud, Sigmund. 1956. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Freud, Sigmund. 1997. Writings on Art and Literature. Genosko, Garry. 1996. Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction (Transversals). Guattari, Félix, Bains, Paul. 1992. Chaosmosis: An Ethicoaesthetic Paradigm. Guattari, Félix. 2009. Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972-77 Guattari, Félix. 1972. Psychoanalyse et transversalité. Jirsa, Tomáš. 2012. Fyziognomie psaní: V záhybech literárního ornamentu Lacan, Jacques. 1997. Écrits: A Selection. Lacan, Jacques. 1976. Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan : Livre 23, Le sinthome Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. 2002. Deleuze and Language. Procházka, Martin. 2008. Transversals. Šafářová, Barbora. 2003. Achilles G. Rizzoli. |