Surreal Beckett: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism

ISBN-13: 9781138103023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Alan Friedman

Opis

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors.

O autorze

Alan Friedman, Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, has also taught at universities in England, France, and Ireland. His five authored books include　Fictional Death and The Modernist Enterprise,　Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett, and　Multivalence: The Moral Quality of Form in the Modern Novel, and monographs on Lawrence Durrell and William Faulkner.