Telling it Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film

action aesthetics Alain Resnais artistic attempt audience aware Beckett beginning characters compulsive consciousness context continuous present dream emphasis ence eternity event existence experience falsify fathers feel filicide film frame Freud Genet Gertrude Stein Godot Grove Press Harcamone Ibid identical instant intense Jean Genet Joseph Cotten kill Knott's household language Lear Lear's Light in August literature living logic lover Marienbad Melanctha mother mother's mother's move Mummy's Mummy's Ghost narrator nature near-repetitions never novel novelty objective occurs Old Man's past play possible problem Proust Purgatory Quinton R. H. W. Dillard rebegin reliving remember repeated repetition in reverse Resnais Samuel Beckett scenes sense shot Sigmund Freud Singleton Søren Kierkegaard story syntax t'aime tells theatre thing timeless tion Tractatus trans transcend Unnamable verse voluntary memory W. B. Yeats Waiting for Godot Watt Watt's Wittgenstein words writing Yeats