Beckett’s later work substituted phonetic and gestural structure for discursive meaning.

Evidence

Beckett did go onwith plays and texts in which, although the discursive meaning of the words is never entirely destroyed, the connection between ever more barren groups of words was achieved more and more by using phonetic arrangement, leitmotifs, repetitions, analogies and echoes, and, in the plays, through gestures and pantomime. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Characterizes how meaning coheres in Beckett’s late style — non-discursive devices bearing the weight.
• XREF: connects to: Beckett’s crystalline dramatic structure concealed sharp insertions like Berg’s tonality; Beckett’s Endgame structures drama through parodic categories and musical form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2240; Phonetic wordplay can dismantle imperial ideology by fragmenting it (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Linguistic thoughts can be heard as sounds rather than meanings #expands (0.83) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 221
• Beckett’s Endgame structures drama through parodic categories and musical form. #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2240
• Beckett built spontaneity into his crystalline dramatic structures like Berg used tonality. #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2243
• Phonetic wordplay can dismantle imperial ideology by fragmenting it #expands (0.72)