| Beckett and Aesthetics Contributor(s): Albright, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521829089 ISBN-13: 9780521829083 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2003 Annotation: As a young man, Samuel Beckett (1906-89) hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world. Instead, he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett sought escape through allegories of artistic frustration and the art of non-representation and estrangement. Albright depicts Beckett experimenting with the concept that an artistic medium might be made to speak. Engaging with radio, film, television, prose and drama, Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2003051533 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.08" W x 9.36" (0.89 lbs) 188 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
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Contributor Bio(s): Albright, Daniel: - Daniel Albright is Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of many books on music and modernist literature, including Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts (2000) and Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Source Materials (2003). |