Beckett's imagined interpreters and the failures of modernism / Nick Wolterman.
Wolterman, Nick, author.
2022
PR6003.E282
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Title Beckett's imagined interpreters and the failures of modernism / Nick Wolterman.
Author Wolterman, Nick, author.
ISBN 9783031056505 (electronic bk.)
3031056507 (electronic bk.)
9783031056499
3031056493
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05650-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-05650-5 doi
Call Number PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal Classification 842/.914
Summary Samuel 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. .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 29, 2022).
Series New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century. 2945-6800
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1. 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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