Beckett''s Eighteenth Century

Zusatztext '...a convincing and detailed study...Stimulating! meticulously researched! Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Beckett's involvement with eighteenth-century literature and argues convincingly that part of his originality is derived precisely from his study of these writers.' - Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor FREDERIK SMITH is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Klappentext Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift! Pope! Defoe! Fielding! Sterne! Johnson! Gray! and other writers of this period! this study demonstrates how he was not only influenced by them but interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Beckett's uniqueness is not questioned here! but this uniqueness is shown! paradoxically! to have its roots at least in part in his native literature of two centuries ago. Zusammenfassung Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, and other writers of this period, this study demonstrates how he was not only influenced by them but interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Beckett's uniqueness is not questioned here, but this uniqueness is shown, paradoxically, to have its roots at least in part in his native literature of two centuries ago. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction Reading the Eighteenth Century 'Hiatus in MS': Swift and Beckett Beckett and the Eighteenth Century Novel 'Gentle Skimmer': Reader Entrapment in Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and Beckett Beckett's Literary Gerontophilia 'My Johnson Fantasy' Pope, Beckett, and the Aesthetics of Decay Conclusion Appendices Index...

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List of Illustrations Introduction Reading the Eighteenth Century 'Hiatus in MS': Swift and Beckett Beckett and the Eighteenth Century Novel 'Gentle Skimmer': Reader Entrapment in Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and Beckett Beckett's Literary Gerontophilia 'My Johnson Fantasy' Pope, Beckett, and the Aesthetics of Decay Conclusion Appendices Index

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'...a convincing and detailed study...Stimulating, meticulously researched, Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Beckett's involvement with eighteenth-century literature and argues convincingly that part of his originality is derived precisely from his study of these writers.' - Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: F Smith, F. Smith
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349425228
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42522-8
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection