Spools, Hats, and Handbags: Narrative Entropy in the Plays of Samuel Beckett

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: A thesis exploring the intersection between narratology and dramatic literature using three plays by Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, and Waiting for Godot. Through the employment of narrative entropy, these three plays yield significant challenges to the picture of life-as-narrative, interrogating both the dramatic form and the narrative form using the literary-performative combination of both.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2015

Subject	Beckett
Subject	Stanford English Department
Subject	Stanford Department of English
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	narrative
Subject	narratology
Subject	drama
Subject	dramatic literature
Subject	narrative entropy
Subject	Happy Days
Subject	Krapp's Last Tape
Subject	Waiting for Godot
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zx198mk7278

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Preferred Citation: Tjossem, Nora. "Spools, Hats, and Handbags: Narrative Entropy in the Plays of Samuel Beckett." Stanford University Libraries, June 2015. Web. <http://purl.stanford.edu/zx198mk7278>

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