God, the Quest, the Hero - Thematic Structures in Beckett''s Fiction

Klappentext In her exploration of the quest for God in Beckett's fiction! Barge discloses a powerful substratum of thematic and narrative movements underlying the rhetoric of Beckett's texts. By studying examples of myth-making structures in representative selections of the fiction! she reveals their profundity and centrality to the whole of Beckett's visionary thought and art. Selections range from Assumption to Company! with attention focused both on the texts and on the criticism concerning them. Zusammenfassung In her exploration of the quest for God in Beckett's fiction! Barge discloses a powerful substratum of thematic and narrative movements underlying the rhetoric of Beckett's texts. By studying examples of myth-making structures in representative selections of the fiction! she reveals their profundity and centrality to the whole of Beckett's visionary thought and art.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laura Barge
• Verlag: University Of North Carolina
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780807892350
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9235-0
• Seiten: 352
• Serien: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures; North Carolina Studies in the; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft