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Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes
Contributor(s): Feldman, Matthew (Author)
ISBN: 082649059X     ISBN-13: 9780826490599
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $198.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2006
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Annotation: Samuel Beckett is a canonical, if challenging, giant of 20th century literature. This monograph is based on an analysis of the notebooks and transcriptions compiled by Beckett from 1929-1940, which shed important insight into Beckett's working methods, original sources and literary development.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Drama
Dewey: 848.912
LCCN: 2006284115
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Samuel Beckett is a challenging giant of 20th century literature, and Beckett studies increasingly focus on the interwar period for evidence of Beckett's subsequent embrace of an 'art of failure'.
This monograph is based on close analysis of the newly-released notebooks and transcriptions compiled by Beckett from 1929-1940, which shed important and unique insight into Beckett's working methods, original sources and literary development. In particular they reveal the central paradox that Beckett's professions of 'ignorance and impotence' were founded upon extensive erudition and academic practices reflecting his interests in philosophy and psychology.
This is the first book to offer an extended study of how recent archival discoveries can contribute to the fundamental transformation of Beckett's truly revolutionary literature.

Contributor Bio(s): Feldman, Matthew: - Matthew Feldman is Professor in the History of Modern Ideas at Teesside University, UK, and co-director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies.