Beckett and Aesthetics

by Daniel Albright

As a young man, Samuel Beckett (1906-89) 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 sought escape through allegories of artistic frustration and the art of non-representation and estrangement. Albright depicts Beckett experimenting with the concept that an artistic medium...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521829089
• ISBN13: 9780521829083
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"