Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

List of contents

Introduction: Beckett and the image; 1. A poetics of the image: Paris and Dublin 1929-1932; 2. The politics of the image: Dublin, Paris, London 1931-1936; 3. Beckett's German Renaissance; 4. 'Terrifying materiality': Watteau, Yeats, Picasso, Duchamp; 5. Impossible image: Watt and failed ekphrasis; 6. From Bram van Velde to The Unnamable; 7. 'Sordid abstraction': prose, plays, paintings.

About the author

Conor Carville is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Reading. His book The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity appeared in 2012 and a volume of poetry, Harm's Way, was published in 2013. His writing on art has appeared in Frieze and Circa.

Summary

Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the most important writer of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Conor Carville, Conor (University of Reading) Carville, Carville Conor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108422772
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42277-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, English, Ireland, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights