عنوان

Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics /

(Number (ISBN

3319753991

(Number (ISBN

9783319753997

Erroneous ISBN

9783319753980

Title Proper

Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Tim Lawrence.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Representation and Resistance: Beckett as Reader and Critic -- 2. Beckett's Aesthetic of Vision: Figuration and Surrealist Influence -- 3. Transitions and Abstractions: Periodical Culture and Beckett's Revisions of the Visual -- 4. "This running against the walls of our cage": Beckett at the Boundary.

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Text of Note

This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett's writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett's late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett's work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky's theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Proquest Ebook Central

Stock Number

5356190

Title

Samuel Beckett's critical aesthetics.

International Standard Book Number

9783319753980

Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989.

Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989.

Authors, Irish-- 20th century, Biography.

Authors, Irish.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LIT-- 004120

Number

Edition

Class number

Lawrence, Tim

Date of Transaction

20200823105900.0

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