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001 2014002498
003 DLC
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008 140318s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014002498
020 $a9781107059221 (hardback)
020 $a9781107629110 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6003.E282$bZ62115 2014
082 00 $a848/.91409$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aConnor, Steven,$d1955-
245 10 $aBeckett, modernism and the material imagination /$cSteven Connor, University of Cambridge.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $av, 217 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, flies, the radio switch, tape, religion and academic life, Connor shows how Beckett's writing is characteristic of a distinctively mundane or worldly modernism, arguing that it is well-attuned to our current concern with the stressed relations between the human and natural worlds. Through Connor's analysis, Beckett's prose, poetry and dramatic works animate a modernism profoundly concerned with life, worldly existence and the idea of the world as such. Lucid, provocative, wide-ranging, and richly informed by critical and cultural theory, this new book from Steven Connor is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Beckett, modernism and twentieth-century literary studies"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Beckett's finitude; Part I. Bodies: 2. 'My fortieth year had come and gone and I still throwing the javelin': Beckett's athletics; 3. The nauseous character of all flesh; 4. Making flies mean something; Part II. Timepieces: 5. 'I switch off': the ordeals of radio; 6. Looping the loop: tape-time in Burroughs and Beckett; 7. 'In my soul I suppose, where the acoustics are so bad': writing the white noise; 8. Slow going; Part III. Worlds: 9. Beckett's low church; 10. The loutishness of learning; 11. Beckett and the world; 12. 'On such and such a day... in such a world'.
600 10 $aBeckett, Samuel,$d1906-1989$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/59221/cover/9781107059221.jpg