Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn

by S.E. Gontarski and S. E. Gontarski

Book Overview

Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism.

Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to "find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography," his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the mid-1950s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501337629
• ISBN13: 9781501337628
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"