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KlappentextSamuel Beckett´s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett´s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have remained the stuff of scholarly footnotes and asides.Beckett´s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism addresses these issues head-on and investigates how Beckett´s ideas about who he writes for affect what he writes. What it finds speaks to current understandings not only of Beckett´s techniques and ambitions, but also of modernism´s experiments as fundamentally compromised challenges to enshrined ways of understanding and organizing the social world. Beckett´s uniquely anxious audience-targeting brings out similarly self-doubting strategies in the work of other experimental twentieth-century writers and artists in whom he is interested: his corpus proves emblematic of a modernism that understands its inability to achieve transformative social effects all at once, but that nevertheless judiciously complicates too-neat distinctions drawn within ongoing culture wars.For its re-evaluations of four key points of orientation for understanding Beckett´s artistic ambitions-his arch critical pronouncements, his postwar conflations of value and valuelessness, his often-ambiguous self-commentary, and his sardonic metatheatrical play-as well as for its running dialogue with wider debates around modernism as a social phenomenon, this book is of interest to students and researchers interested in Beckett, modernism, and the relations between modern and contemporary artistic and social developments.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-05652-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum22.07.2023
Auflage1st ed. 2022
Seiten204 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenIX, 204 p.
Artikel-Nr.54117986
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