Description |
1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) |
Contents |
The theoretical absurd: an introduction -- Antecedents to the absurd -- The twentieth century: towards the absurd -- Around the absurd I: twentieth-century absurdist practice -- Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd -- Daniil Kharms as minimalist-absurdist -- Franz Kafka: otherness in the labyrinth of absurdity -- Samuel Beckett's vessels, voices and shades of the absurd -- Flann O'Brien and the purloined absurd -- Beyond the absurd? |
Summary |
Neil Cornwell presents a study of the absurd, covering fiction and theatre. He includes sections on the antecedents, history and theory of the absurd, which are complimented by case studies of four authors. He concludes by examining how it has infiltrated the 21st century in television, radio, film and advertising |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-335) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Kafka, Franz. swd |
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Absurd (Philosophy) in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Absurd (Philosophy) in literature
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Absurde Literatur
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Das Absurde
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Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Anthologies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781847791672 |
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1847791670 |
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9781781700969 |
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1781700966 |
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0719074096 |
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9780719074097 |
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