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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819599103321

Autore

Caselli Daniela

Titolo

Beckett's Dantes [[electronic resource] ] : intertextuality in the fiction and criticism / / Daniela Caselli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, c2005

ISBN

1-78170-197-0

1-84779-365-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

828.91209

Soggetti

Comparative literature - English and Italian

Comparative literature - Italian and English

Comparative literature - French and Italian

Comparative literature - Italian and French

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 (p. [206]-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719071560; 9780719071560; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dantes in Limbo; Detecting Dante in Joyce; Recycling Dante in Proust; Belacqua does not observe 'the rule of the road'; There is no real Belacqua in Dream; Dante and Mr Beckett; Sordello is in the shade; Strata and mysteries: intratextuality in More Pricks Than Kicks; Quick deaths; Screechy flatfooted Tuscany peacocks; Fatigue and disgust: Murphy and Watt; Dante is kept out of sight: Murphy and the manuscripts; Addenda and excorporations; Who is the third beside you? Authority in Mercier and Camier

Vague shadowy shapesNo quotes at any price; Déjà vu beyond reach: from the Novellas to the Three Novels; The calmative effect of one's classics; Odds and ends; Bits and scraps flickering on and off; Staging the Inferno in How It Is; A voice comes to one in the dark; 'E fango è il mondo': the Inferno performed; Geometries of passion; The witness and the scribe; 'In the words of the poet': The Lost Ones; Ravening eyes; Closed places; The sun and other stars would still be shining; Conclusion Farewell to the old lutist; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first



study in English on the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian).The book is aimed a