Bibliograph

Samuel Beckett's critical aesthetics, Tim Lawrence

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Samuel Beckett's critical aesthetics, Tim Lawrence

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Samuel Beckett's critical aesthetics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tim Lawrence

Summary

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 attention to Beckett?s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett?s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett?s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky?s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note:, 1., Introduction, 2., Representation and Resistance: Beckett as Reader and Critic, 3., Beckett's Aesthetic of Vision: Figuration and Surrealist Influence, 4., Transitions and Abstractions: Periodical Culture and Beckett's Revisions of the Visual, 5., "This Running Against the Walls of Our Cage": Beckett at the Boundary, 6., Conclusion

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