Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism

Hardback

Main Details

Title Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Daniela Caselli
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780719071560
ClassificationsDewey:828.9109
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 12 January 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon. -- .

Author Biography

Daniela Caselli is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Manchester -- .