240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett’s art as dramatist and story-teller. His astonishing flexibility and inventiveness is stressed throughout, either in studies of single novels, or from the... Read more
1. Introduction Katharine Worth 2. The Satiric Shape of Watt John Chalker 3. ‘The Labours of Poetical Excavation’ Charles Peake 4. Assumption to Lessness: Beckett’s Shorter Fiction Brian Finney 5. Innovation and Continuity in How It Is Victor Sage 6. The Dubious Consolation in Beckett’s Fiction: Art, Love and Nature Barbara Hardy 7. Bilingual Playwright Harry Cockerham 8. Film and the Religion of Art Martin Dodsworth 9. The Space and the Sound in Beckett’s Theatre Katharine Worth
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Katharine Worth
