literary and philosophical perspectives on the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter
by L.A.C. Dobrez.
London
Bloomsbury Academic
2013
392 pages.
Bloomsbury academic collections. English literary criticism
AcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Beckett Irreducible1 Beckett: the Reduction2 Beckett: the philosophical tradition3 Beckett and Sartre: the Unnamable and the pour soi4 Beckett and Heidegger: being-in-the-world and the concept of angst5 Beckett and Heidegger: Existence, nothingness and Being II Ionesco and the experience of wonder6 Ionesco: claustrophobia and eurphoria 7 Ionesco and Heidegger: authenticity and the collective 8 Ionesco and Heidegger: authenticity, death and the search for being III Genet's solitude9 Genet: solitude and the Sartrean Look10 Genet and Sartre: the murderer and the saint11 Genet and Sartre: the image and the revolutionaryIV The approach to art12 Beckett: the task of saying nothing13 Genet and the Mass: sacrament as efficacious sign14 Ionesco: the free imagination V Pinter and the problem of verification15 Pinter and phenomenology: the subjective-objective synthesis16 Pinter: psychological realism and the scientific approach17 Pinter: the lure of objectivityConclusion Source referencesIndex
Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genet, Jean, -- 1910-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.