Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly 'apolitical' and 'ahistorical' writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing Beckett's novels in the context of the newly-liberated Irish Free State, Patrick Bixby explores for the first time their confrontation with the legacies of both Irish nationalism and British imperialism. In doing so, he reveals Beckett's fiction as a remarkable example of how postcolonial writing addresses the relationships between private consciousness and public life, as well as those between the novel form and a cultural environment including not...
Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly 'apolitical' and 'ahistorical' writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing Beckett'...
A History of Irish Modernism brings together new writing on a wide variety of artistic works (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting, music, radio, and architecture. It will be a key resource for graduates and researchers of modernism and Irish studies.
A History of Irish Modernism brings together new writing on a wide variety of artistic works (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from li...
