Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781472543196
Series Statement:
Continuum literary studies series
Content:
Introduction: Since Beckett -- PART 1: BACK ROADS: BECKETT, BANVILLE AND IRELAND. 1. Edgeworth, Bowen, Beckett, Banville: A Minor Tradition ; 2. Spectrality and Eclipse: Beckett and Banville ; 3. Unknown Entity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville -- PART 2: TUNE ACCORDINGLY: BECKETT, BERNHARD AND SEBALD. 4. Faint Clarity: Tuning in Beckett ; 5. All Balls: Beckett, Bernhard and Correction ; 6. A Quite Singular Clarity: Beckett, Bernhard, Sebald -- PART 3: HOW IT OUGHT TO BE: BECKETT, GLOBALIZATION AND UTOPIA. 7. From Joyce to Beckett: From National to Global ; 8. Knowledge Within Bounds: Beckett, Globalization and the Limits of Perception ; 9. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Beckett in the Ruins of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge. Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826491671
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441178138
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ISBN 9781441100672
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ISBN 9781441115577
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Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989
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DOI:
10.5040/9781472543196
Author information:
Boxall, Peter 1969-
