Since Beckett Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
03.11.2011
Verlag
Bloomsbury PublishingSeitenzahl
246
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/1.3 cm
Gewicht
380 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4411-7813-8
Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge.
Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture.
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