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Lessons in Blindness from Samuel Beckett

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Peggy Phelan
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Reading samuel beckett made me want to link literary and visual studies, although when i first began to love his work, I did not understand that these were different disciplines. A graduate student in the English department at Rutgers University, I read Waiting for Godot while sitting on the floor of my dorm room. I remember really squinting at the pages, trying both to read every word of the play and to see it on a stage in my mind. When I finished, I was convinced I had read the dialogue to a painting. What confused me was whether the painting existed before the play or whether Beckett was trying to create it in the play's performance.

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 119 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 1279 - 1288
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2004

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