Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

by Steven Connor

Book Overview

Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, flies, the radio switch, tape, religion and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107059224
• ISBN13: 9781107059221
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"