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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786861203321

Autore

Brater Enoch

Titolo

Ten ways of thinking about Samuel Beckett : the falsetto of reason / / Enoch Brater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Methuen Drama, , 2011

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4081-3723-2

1-4081-3724-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Diaries, letters and essays

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Literary studies: from c 1900 -

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Beckett and a Way of Thinking -- 1. Things to Ponder while Waiting for Godot -- 2. From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century -- 3. Beckett's Landscape: What There Is to Recognize -- 4. Beckett's Shades of the Color Gray -- 5. The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage -- 6. Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots -- 7. Beckett's-What?-Romanticism -- 8. Beckett's Beckett: So Many Words for Silence -- 9. "Traces blurs signs": Where Beckett Meets Ibsen -- 10. Suitcases, Sand and Dry Goods -- Addendum To What?: The No-Thing that Knows No Name and the Empty Envelope Blissfully Reconsidered.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume of essays addressing the author's drama, novels, short stories and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a variety of delightfully original, playful and intriguing studies of Beckett's work. For theatre audiences and Beckett readers it provides a fresh approach to this great writer.