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001448342 1001_ $$aWolterman, Nick,$$eauthor.
001448342 24510 $$aBeckett's imagined interpreters and the failures of modernism /$$cNick Wolterman.
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001448342 300__ $$a1 online resource (ix, 204 pages).
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001448342 4901_ $$aNew interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century,$$x2945-6800
001448342 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001448342 5050_ $$a1. Introduction -- 2. Janus-Faced Arguments: Becketts Interwar Essays and Other Self-Divided Defenses of Modernism -- 3. Impossible Anti-values: Becketts Postwar Writing and the Self-defeating Pursuit of Absolute Loss -- 4. Slippery Self-commentaries: Avant-garde Celebrity from Dream to Endgame -- 5. Staged Compromises: Anticipating Appropriation from Eleutheria to Havel to Catastrophe. 6. Re-targeting Modernist Failure.
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001448342 520__ $$aSamuel Becketts work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Becketts own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have remained the stuff of scholarly footnotes and asides. Becketts Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism addresses these issues head-on and investigates how Becketts ideas about who he writes for affect what he writes. What it finds speaks to current understandings not only of Becketts techniques and ambitions, but also of modernisms experiments as fundamentally compromised challenges to enshrined ways of understanding and organizing the social world. Becketts uniquely anxious audience-targeting brings out similarly self-doubting strategies in the work of other experimental twentieth-century writers and artists in whom he is interested: his corpus proves emblematic of a modernism that understands its inability to achieve transformative social effects all at once, but that nevertheless judiciously complicates too-neat distinctions drawn within ongoing culture wars. For its re-evaluations of four key points of orientation for understanding Becketts artistic ambitionshis arch critical pronouncements, his postwar conflations of value and valuelessness, his often-ambiguous self-commentary, and his sardonic metatheatrical playas well as for its running dialogue with wider debates around modernism as a social phenomenon, this book is of interest to students and researchers interested in Beckett, modernism, and the relations between modern and contemporary artistic and social developments. Nick Wolterman is an independent scholar based in York, UK. He received his PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York. .
001448342 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 29, 2022).
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