Beckett and aesthetics

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Beckett and aesthetics

Daniel Albright

Cambridge University Press, 2003

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Illustrations
  • Music examples
  • Introduction: Beckett and surrealism
  • 1. Stage: resisting failure
  • 2. Tape recorder, radio, film, television: resisting the human image
  • 3. Music: losing the will to resist.

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