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Beckett's Thing : Painting and Theatre /
Explores Samuel Beckett's relation to painting and the visual imagination that informs his theatrical workRead an interview with David LloydBeckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, Da...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Other Becketts : OTBE
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories
- 3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity
- 4. Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story
- 5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen
- 6. 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark
- 7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives
- 8. New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century
- 9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment
- 10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley
- 11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories
- 12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Other Becketts: Series Preface General Editor: S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University
- Introduction: The Painted Stage - Beckett's Visual Aesthetics
- 1 Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett
- 2 Beckett's Thing: Bram van Velde and the Gaze
- 3 'Siege laid again': Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage
- Conclusion: The Play's the Thing
- Bibliography
- Index