Neil Cornwell

The Absurd in Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) - as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074103
• ISBN-10: 071907410X
• Artikelnr.: 22399261

Autorenporträt

Neil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: Introductory 1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction 2.
Antecedents to the Absurd PART 2: Growth of the Absurd 3. The Twentieth
Century: towards the absurd 4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century
Absurdist Practice 5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd PART
3: Special Authors 6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist 7. Franz Kafka:
Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity 8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices
and Shades of the Absurd 9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd IN
CONCLUSION 10. Beyond the Absurd? Conclusion