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Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett

Hardback

Main Details

Title Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett
Authors and Contributors      Contributions by Jonathan Bignell
Contributions by Peter Boxall
Contributions by Enoch Brater
Foreword by Terry Eagleton
Edited by Daniela Caselli
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719080197
ClassificationsDewey:848.91409
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 3 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Beckett and nothing invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which 'little nothings' pervade the Beckett canon. The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at 'nothing' not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on 'nothing' in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television. The volume is a scholarly intervention in the fields of Beckett studies which offers its chapters as case studies to use in the classroom. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies. -- .

Author Biography

Daniela Caselli is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures at the University of Manchester