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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451661403321

Titolo

Beckett at 100 [[electronic resource] ] : revolving it all / / edited by Linda Ben-Zvi and Angela Moorjani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-16544-1

9786611165444

0-19-804364-3

1-4356-2035-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Ben-ZviLinda

MoorjaniAngela B

Disciplina

848/.91409

Soggetti

Authors, Irish - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; IMAGES. FOR RUBY COHN; PART I. THINKING THROUGH BECKETT; PART II. SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES; PART III. ECHOING BECKETT; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries, who take on the centenary challenge of "revolving it all": that is, going "back to Beckett"-the title of an earlier study by critic Ruby Cohn, to whom the book is dedicated-in order to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contexts and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to futur