The absurd in literature /
Neil Cornwell presents a study of the absurd, covering fiction and theatre. He includes sections on the antecedents, history and theory of the absurd, which are complimented by case studies of four authors. He concludes by examining how it has infiltrated the 21st century in television, radio, film...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The theoretical absurd: an introduction
- Antecedents to the absurd
- The twentieth century: towards the absurd
- Around the absurd I: twentieth-century absurdist practice
- Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd
- Daniil Kharms as minimalist-absurdist
- Franz Kafka: otherness in the labyrinth of absurdity
- Samuel Beckett's vessels, voices and shades of the absurd
- Flann O'Brien and the purloined absurd
- Beyond the absurd?