| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Series |
Longman Critical Readers |
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Longman critical readers.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Editors' Note; Introduction; International Beckett; Theory in translation; Categorical criticism; Beckett between modernity and postmodernity; PART ONE: POLITICAL CRITICISM; 1 Trying to Understand Endgame; 2 Beckett by Way of Baudrillard: Toward a Political Reading of Samuel Beckett's Drama; 3 'The Poetry is Another Pair of Sleeves': Beckett, Ireland and Modernist Lyric Poetry; PART TWO: LITERATURE/PHILOSOPHY; 4 Molloy's Silence; 5 Where now? Who now?; 6 The Trilogy Translated; PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTION |
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7 Voice and Mechanical Reproduction: Krapp's Last Tape, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, That Time8 Dispossession; PART FOUR: PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM; 9 Desiring-Production: The Schizo's Stroll; 10 The Fictional Body: Le Dépeupleur, Bing, Imagination morte imaginez; 11 'Alone in the Accusative': Beckett's Narcissistic Echoes; PART FIVE: READER RECEPTION; 12 The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett's Theater; PART SIX: SEMIOTICS; 13 Comic Strategies in Beckett's Narratives; PART SEVEN: FEMINISM/GENDER; 14 The Father, Love, and Banishment; 15 Not I: Through a Tube Starkly; Glossary |
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Notes on AuthorsFurther Reading; Index |
| Summary |
Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Birkett, Jennifer.
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Ince, Kate.
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| ISBN |
9781317885832 |
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131788583X |
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1306869978 |
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9781306869973 |
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