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1 online resource |
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Cover; Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: "Reduced to doing a lap with Führer": Beckett's Political Aesthetic; ADORNO: PUTTING MEANING ON TRIAL; WATT'S EINTOPF; 1: "The same old mouldy words": Beckett, Modernism, and the Irish Free State; IRELAND, LETTERS, AND POLITICS; MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS, EXECUTION, AND THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY STATE; THE AFTERMATH OF McCABE; 2: "Echo's Bones": Sex, Politics, and Entailment in the Irish Free State; 3: Beckett in History: German Diaries, Watt, and the Problem of Propaganda |
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4: Taking Them at their Word: Politics of the Body in Malone DiesLIP SERVICE AND ACTION: GERMANY AGAIN; "NEUTRAL AND INERT": WRITING AND HISTORY; ANNIHILATION; CATASTROPHE; DEGENERATE FIGURES: "THE NEW THING THAT HAS HAPPENED OR THE OLD THING THAT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN"; 5: "It all boils down to a question of words": The Unnamable and History's Abattoirs; ARENAS; HEADING TO THE ABATTOIR; HEAPS, WALLS, AND LANGUAGE; THEORETICAL CODA: RECONSIDERING AGAMBEN AND BECKETT; 6: "Prophetic Relish": Famine Politics in Beckett's Endgame; HISTORY AND STARVATION; ENDGAME: NOT A GRAIN OF TRUTH |
| Summary |
This volume explores how Beckett's work responded to the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, as well as to the rise of fascism, and the atrocities of World War II |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Ireland
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Fascism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fascism
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Literature
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Politics and government
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War and literature
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Ireland -- In literature
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Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 -- In literature
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045749
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Europe
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Ireland
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192555496 |
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0192555499 |
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9780191865879 |
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0191865877 |
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