Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways.

List of contents

1. 'Saxa loquuntur!'; 2. Company: Mining Beckett's Literary Memory; 3. Ill Seen Ill Said: Turning Deasil Among the Cromlechs; 4. Wordly Corrasion in Worstward Ho; Conclusion: The Masonry of Representation.

Summary

Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Byron, Mark (University of Sydney) Byron
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108738965
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73896-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, 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: plays and playwrights, geology; archaeology; etymology; stone; intertextuality