James McNaughton

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how Beckett's work responded to the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, as well as to the rise of fascism, and the atrocities of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198822547
• ISBN-10: 0198822545
• Artikelnr.: 51389517

Autorenporträt

James McNaughton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama. Indebted to archival research, Dr. McNaughton's work examines the intersections among history, politics, and modernist aesthetics. His areas of specialty include twentieth-century Irish writing, British and Irish poetry, and international modernisms. He has previously published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. He also writes non-fiction essays.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: 'Reduced to doing a lap with Führer': Beckett's
Political Aesthetic
* 1: 'The same old mouldy words': Beckett, Modernism, and the Irish
Free State
* 2: 'Echo's Bones': Sex, Politics, and Entailment in the Irish
Free-State
* 3: Beckett in History: German Diaries, Watt, and the Problem of
Propaganda
* 4: Taking Them at their Word: Politics of the Body in Malone Dies
* 5: 'It all boils down to a question of words': The Unnamable and
History's Abattoirs
* 6: 'Prophetic Relish': Famine Politics in Beckett's Endgame
* Bibliography