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Beckett and Aesthetics

Beckett and Aesthetics

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521829089
ISBN13: 9780521829083
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 22 2003
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
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 might be made to speak. Engaging with radio, film, television, prose and drama, Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.

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