Beckett and Modernism [Hardcover]

This book of collected essays approaches Becketts work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine modernism in connection to concepts such as late modernism or postmodernism. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre  encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film  as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of modernism after postmodernism in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Becketts entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.

1. How Beckett Has Modified Modernism: From Beckett to Blanchot and Bataille; JEAN-MICHEL RABAT?.- 2. From Language Revolution to Literature of the Unword: Beckett as Late Modernist; SHANE WELLER.- 3. Late and Belated Modernism: Duchamp...Stein.Feininger..Beckett; CONOR CARVILLE.- 4. Beckett and Joyce, Two Nattering Nabobs of Negativity; SAM SLOTE.- 5. Beckett, Lewis, Joyce. Reading Dream of Fair to Middling Women through The Apes of God and Ulysses; JOS? FRANCISCO FERN?NDEZ.- 6. Omniscience and omnipotence: Molloy and the End of Joyceology; ANDY WIMBUSH.- 7. A new occasion, a new term of relation: Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot; WILLIAM DAVIES.- 8. The gantelope of sense and nonsense run: Echos Bones and Other Precipitates in the 1930s; ONNO KOSTERS.- 9. Schenectady Putters and Leaving Certificate Ta-Tas: lãâ