Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now su...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Janus-Faced Arguments: Beckett’s Interwar Essays and Other Self-Divided Defenses of Modernism
- 3. Impossible Anti-values: Beckett’s Postwar Writing and the Self-defeating Pursuit of Absolute Loss
- 4. Slippery Self-commentaries: Avant-garde Celebrity from Dream to Endgame
- 5. Staged Compromises: Anticipating Appropriation from Eleutheria to Havel to Catastrophe. 6. Re-targeting Modernist Failure