Beckett the Shape Changer - A Symposium

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett's art as dramatist and story-teller.

List of contents

1. Introduction Katharine Worth 2. The Satiric Shape of Watt John Chalker 3. ‘The Labours of Poetical Excavation’ Charles Peake 4. Assumption to Lessness: Beckett’s Shorter Fiction Brian Finney 5. Innovation and Continuity in How It Is Victor Sage 6. The Dubious Consolation in Beckett’s Fiction: Art, Love and Nature Barbara Hardy 7. Bilingual Playwright Harry Cockerham 8. Film and the Religion of Art Martin Dodsworth 9. The Space and the Sound in Beckett’s Theatre Katharine Worth

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Katharine Worth

Summary

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett’s art as dramatist and story-teller.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine Worth
• Assisted by: Katharine Worth (Editor), Worth Katharine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367747695
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74769-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Beckett
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > General, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights