Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics

This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence, Tim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Theater.
Aesthetics.
British literature.
European literature.
ISBN:9783319753997
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Representation and Resistance: Beckett as Reader and Critic
  • 2. Beckett's Aesthetic of Vision: Figuration and Surrealist Influence
  • 3. Transitions and Abstractions: Periodical Culture and Beckett's Revisions of the Visual
  • 4. "This running against the walls of our cage": Beckett at the Boundary.

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