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Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett
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Authors and Contributors |
Foreword by Terry Eagleton
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Edited by Daniela Caselli
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:292 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - from c 1900 - |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780719087844
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Classifications | Dewey:828.91209 |
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Audience | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
Illustrations |
Illustrations, black & white
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Manchester University Press
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Imprint |
Manchester University Press
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Publication Date |
30 June 2012 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Beckett's reception was characterised in its early stages by a sustained attention to nothing as a philosophical concept. Theodor Adorno, however, was quick to argue that Beckett's plays resisted - unlike Sartre's - having their nothing transformed into something. This Beckettian nothing, moreover, is often invested with the aura of the genius, eit
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 -- .
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