The Irish Beckett - Rilegato

Harrington, John P.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0815625286 ISBN 13: 9780815625285

Casa editrice: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1991

Riassunto

Breaking with a powerful tradition among scholars that insists that Beckett's Irishness is no more than an accident of birth, Harrington provides compelling evidence that many of Beckett's best-known texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations.

This is the first book to explore Samuel Beckett's major works entirely in their Irish intellectual, cultural, and social milieu. It is a rebuttal to the wholly formalistic literary analysis that has dominated Anglo-American criticism of this major writer, whose writings have long been thought to
belong completely in the international or transnational contexts of Modernism.

Providing a new reading of such works as More Pricks Than Kicks, Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier,
Waiting for Godot, and Endgame, Harrington provides an understanding of Beckett's work in its
representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions. He explains allusions and
annotates place and family names, discusses representations of contrary perceptions and possibilities, and points to Beckett's major contribution to the recurring Irish conception of imminent liberation from inherited, restrictive formulations.

This sophisicated analysis and recovery of the Irish Beckett, which establishes Beckett's fundamental importance to the current debate about Irish cultural identity, will be of interest to teachers and students of contemporary Irish literature and culture, to Beckett scholars, and to all those interested in contemporary literary theory and criticism.

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L'autore

John P. Harrington is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union in New York, where he is also Director of the Center for Writing and Speaking. He is the editor of The English Traveler in Ireland: Accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the Elizabethan to the Victorian Eras, and Modern Irish Drama.

Product Description

Breaking with tradition, this text argues that many of Beckett's texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations. It provides an understanding of Beckett's work in its representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions.

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• Editore: Syracuse Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0815625286
• ISBN 13: 9780815625285
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224