The absurd in literature. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Neil Cornwell.
• Other Names: Cornwell, Neil
• Contents: The theoretical absurd: an introduction -- Antecedents to the absurd -- The twentieth century: towards the absurd -- Around the absurd I: twentieth-century absurdist practice -- Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd -- Daniil Kharms as minimalist-absurdist -- Franz Kafka: otherness in the labyrinth of absurdity -- Samuel Beckett's vessels, voices and shades of the absurd -- Flann O'Brien and the purloined absurd -- Beyond the absurd?
• Publisher Details: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93384; Absurd (Philosophy) in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Absurd (Philosophy) in literature; Absurde Literatur; Das Absurde; Electronic books; Anthologies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847791672; 1847791670; 9781781700969; 1781700966
• Related ISBNs: 0719074096; 9780719074097; 071907410X; 9780719074103
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-335) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.