Beckett's imagined interpreters and the failures of modernism. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nick Wolterman.
• Authors: Wolterman, Nick
• Contents: Introduction Ideal Uninterpretablity: Beckett's Aporetic Ambitions Un-ideal Interpreters, Targeted Ambiguities: Beckett and Modernism Janus-Faced Arguments: Beckett's Interwar Essays and Other Self-Divided Defenses of Modernism Paradoxical Principles in Proust, Joyce, and the Joyce Circle Beckett's Overdetermined Target Audiences Experimental Explanations as Weak Modernist Criticism Impossible Anti-values: Beckett's Postwar Writing and the Self-defeating Pursuit of Absolute Loss Mimesis and Artistic Value in 'Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit'Non-productive Anti-values in Bataille and BeckettRepetition as Expenditure in Molloy and Waiting for GodotThe Productivity of InattentionBeckett's Failure to Fail Slippery Self-commentaries: Avant-garde Celebrity from Dream to EndgameIneradicable Constructednesss in Tzara and Beckett Self-undermining Authority in Tzara and BeckettDreams of Infinite Delay in Duchamp and Beckett Celebrity as an Artistic Medium Staged Compromises: Anticipating Appropriation from Eleutheria to Havel to Catastrophe The Difficulties of Directness Targeting the Beckett Brand Creative Infidelity Re-targeting Modernist Failure.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 842.914; Literature, Modern--20th century; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- Drama; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Fiction & related items; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Theatre studies; Fiction; Literature; Drama; Theater--History; Literary studies: from c 1900; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031056505
• Related ISBNs: 9783031056499
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