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No-Think is Left to Tell: Zen/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett.(Review)
From:
The Modern Language Review
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October 1, 2000| Author:
Davies, Paul
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No-Thing Is Left to Tell: Zen/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett. By J. L. KUNDERT-GIBBS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 236 pp. 34.50 [pounds sterling].
This is a genuinely engaging study of a complex of Buddhism and modern science, and their potential application to Beckett's aesthetics. Common to Beckett, Zen, and Chaos Theory, says the author, is on the one hand the idea of gibberish as max...
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