Georgina Nugent (Austria Universitat Wien)

Beckett and Stein

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Element is for scholars of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and literary modernism. It is of interest to those looking to understand Beckett's bilingual development and aesthetics, and to those looking to redress the absence of female authors from studies of Beckett's influences by introducing Stein as a key figure.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Beckett Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781108984355
• ISBN-10: 1108984355
• Artikelnr.: 67638210

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'grammar is in our power' (Stein, 1975, 73)
2. Grammar bound: writings on language
3. Renarration in the making of Americans and watt
4. Getting mixed: Lexical renarrations
5. Lexical renarrations and the goodbye to standard English: Stein's role in the development of Beckett's bilingual English praxis
6. 'Waste no more time trying to get it right': Beckett and Stein's 'fidelity to failure' (Beckett, 2009d, 42
2001, 145)
7. Conclusion: 'say it simply. [...] say it simplier' (Stein, 1975, 147)
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