Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath

ISBN-13: 9780198822547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

James McNaughton

Opis

This volume explores how Beckett's work responded to the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, as well as to the rise of fascism, and the atrocities of World War II.

Recenzje

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath presents a historicist and materialist analysis of Samuel Beckett's work. Building on the historicist turn in modernist studies, as well as Irish studies and postcolonial paradigms, it develops new terms through which we can understand Beckett's political aesthetic.

O autorze

James McNaughton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama. Indebted to archival research, Dr. McNaughton's work examines the intersections among history, politics, and modernist aesthetics. His areas of specialty include twentieth-century Irish writing, British and Irish poetry, and international modernisms. He has previously published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. He also writes non-fiction essays.