Since Beckett - Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism

Zusatztext "Superbly contextualized, beautifully written, and wonderfully attentive to (and informative about) critical and theoretical backgrounds, this is a book for all who would better understand the literary era ushered in and still presided over - in spirit, at least - by Samuel Beckett. Resisting the notion that Beckett represents the final phase (or ossification) of modernism, the immensely learned Boxall effectively demonstrates the many ways that the aesthetic postures of exhaustion and persistence crafted by Beckett breathe through the works of some of our most important contemporary writers, notably Banville, DeLillo, Coetzee, and Sebald. Since Beckett is a profound meditation on the work of the master himself and a constantly engaging argument for his continuing importance to world letters." - Professor David Cowart, Department of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina, USA. Informationen zum Autor Peter Boxall is a Reader in English at the University of Sussex, UK. His books include Samuel Beckett: "Waiting for Godot", "Endgame" (Palgrave, 2000) Don Delillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2005) and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Century, 2006). Klappentext 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. Vorwort A fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Since Beckett PART 1: BACK ROADS: BECKETT, BANVILLE AND IRELAND 1. Edgeworth, Bowen, Beckett, Banville: A Minor Tradition 2. Spectrality and Eclipse: Beckett and Banville 3. Unknown Entity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville PART 2: TUNE ACCORDINGLY: BECKETT, BERNHARD AND SEBALD 4. Faint Clarity: Tuning in Beckett 5. All Balls: Beckett, Bernhard and Correction 6. A Quite Singular Clarity: Beckett, Bernhard, Sebald PART 3: HOW IT OUGHT TO BE: BECKETT, GLOBA...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Boxall, Peter Boxall
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9781441178138
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7813-8
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Continuum Literary Studies; Continuum Literary Studies
• Thema: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik