Beckett's dying words

Zusatztext Ricks fascinates, teases and enriches our understanding Informationen zum Autor Christopher Ricks is one of our foremost literary critics, and has written, amongst others, Milton's Grand Style, The Force of Poetry, Keats and Embarrassment, and the New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. Klappentext This book explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer-the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and in French! two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death. `the best introduction to why Beckett writes as he does' Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung This critical study of Samuel Beckett's writing explores his deep convictions concerning life and death. It argues that throughout his writing, Beckett longed for oblivion and harboured the ancient belief that it is better to be dead than alive.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Ricks, Ricks Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1995
• EAN: 9780192824073
• ISBN: 978-0-19-282407-3
• Series: Clarendon Lectures in English; Clarendon Lectures in English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000