TY - GEN AB - 'Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath' explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. AU - McNaughton, James, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR6003.E282 ET - First edition. ID - 845097 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fascism LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822547.001.0001 N2 - 'Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath' explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. SN - 9780191865879 T1 - Samuel Beckett and the politics of aftermath / TI - Samuel Beckett and the politics of aftermath / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822547.001.0001 ER -