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BECKETT AND AESTHETICS
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| By: |
Daniel Albright |
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Hardback |
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£83.99 |
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£73.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521829089 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521829083 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 December, 2003 |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Description: |
This 2003 book engages with radio, film, television, prose and drama and shows Beckett as a sophisticated theorist of aesthetics. |
| Synopsis: |
Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived, Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect route available. Albright explores Beckett's experimentation with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett's own engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic. Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic. |
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7 b/w illus. 8 music examples |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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