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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 February 2010
      30 June 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511659430
      9780521274883
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511659430
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.248kg, 192 Pages
      • Series:
      British and Irish Authors
      Subjects:
      English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    Series:
    British and Irish Authors
    Subjects:
    English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    While providing a critical introduction for the student of Samuel Beckett's work and for other readers and theatre-goers who have been influenced by it, this study also presents an original perspective on one of the twentieth century's greatest writers of prose fiction and drama. Andrew Kennedy links Beckett's vision of a diminished humanity with his art of formally and verbally diminished resources, and traces the fundamental simplicity and coherence of Beckett's work beneath its complex textures. In the section on the plays, Dr Kennedy stresses the humour and tragicomic humanism alongside the theatrical effectiveness; and in a discussion of the fiction (the celebrated trilogy of novels) he relates the relentless diminution of 'story' to the diminishing selfhood of the narrator. An introduction outlines the personal, cultural and specifically literary contexts of Beckett's writing, while a concluding chapter offers up-to-date reflections on his œuvre, from the point-of-view of the themes highlighted throughout the book. This study, complete with a chronological table and a guide to further reading, will prove stimulating for both new and advanced students of Beckett.

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