Beckett and the Modern Novel

Beckett and the Modern Novel PDF Author: John Bolin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.

Beckett and the Modern Novel

Beckett and the Modern Novel PDF Author: John Bolin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Book Description
John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.

Chronicles of Disorder

Chronicles of Disorder PDF Author: David Weisberg
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791491919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative. Weisberg explores Beckett's emergence as a major novelist and intertwines sharp analyses of the relations between narrative form and social content in the key works of the Beckett canon. He considers how and why Beckett's work has become ahistorically—and incorrectly—subsumed into poststructuralist-inspired claims about language and narrative ideology, and he uses Beckett as a case study for tracing out the genesis of the opposition of "autonomous" and "committed" art, and how this opposition influenced the canonization of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s.

How it is

How it is PDF Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.

Beckett's Political Imagination

Beckett's Political Imagination PDF Author: Emilie Morin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841799X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.

Watt

Watt PDF Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219835X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Molloy ; Malone Dies ; The Unnamable

Molloy ; Malone Dies ; The Unnamable PDF Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Beckett and Modernism

Beckett and Modernism PDF Author: Olga Beloborodova
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319703749
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film – as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of ‘modernism after postmodernism’ in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Beckett’s entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work PDF Author: P. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.

Gamechanger

Gamechanger PDF Author: L. X. Beckett
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250165245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Neuromancer meets Star Trek in Gamechanger, a fantastic new book from award-winning author L. X. Beckett. First there was the Setback. Then came the Clawback. Now we thrive. Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation. The first to be raised free of the troubles of the late twenty-first century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That’s how she met Luciano Pox. Luce is a firebrand and has made a name for himself as a naysayer. But there’s more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery of the planet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Tender Hour of Twilight

The Tender Hour of Twilight PDF Author: Richard Seaver
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374273782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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A personal account by the late founder of Arcade Publishing documents his experiences in the literary world of the mid-20th century, describing his efforts to overcome U.S. censorship laws and introduce readers to important written works.