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Illness as method : Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, and Eliot / Jayjit Sarkar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarkar, Jayjit, author.
- Series:
- Series in literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Fin de partie--English.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Tod in Venedig--English.
- Mann, Thomas.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Waste land.
- Eliot, T. S.
- Fin de partie (Beckett, Samuel).
- Tod in Venedig (Mann, Thomas).
- Waste land (Eliot, T. S.).
- Mental illness in literature.
- Diseases in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- xl, 76 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Foreward by Pramod K. Nayar
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The dys-abled players of Samuel Beckett's Endgame
- The circumcised body of Franz Kafka's select letters
- 'Connoisseurship ... of disease' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
- 'Undiscovered countries' with Virginia Woolf's On being ill
- 'Connect nothing with nothing' in T.S. Eliot's The wasteland
- Epilogue
- Pathography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781622736355
- 1622736354
- OCLC:
- 1099672992
- Publisher Number:
- 99983686447
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