Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

"Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, flies, the radio switch, tape, religion and academic life, Connor shows how Beckett's writing is characteristic of a distinctively mundane or worldly modernism, arguing that it is well-attuned to our current concern with the stressed relations between the human and natural worlds. Through Connor's analysis, Beckett's prose, poetry and dramatic works animate a modernism profoundly concerned with life, worldly existence and the idea of the world as such. Lucid, provocative, wide-ranging, and richly informed by critical and cultural theory, this new book from Steven Connor is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Beckett, modernism and twentieth-century literary studies"--

Product details

• Authors: Prof. Steven Connor, Steven Connor, Steven (University of Cambridge) Connor, Connor Steven
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107629110
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62911-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Plays, Playscripts