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Beckett and politics / edited by William Davies, Helen Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Knowledge and learning--Political Science.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Political science.
- Politics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Helen Bailey & William Davies BECKETT & LANGUAGE POLITICS: Editors' Preface 2. The Politics of Forms in Beckett's Writing
- Nadia Louar 3. Beckett, Contradiction and a Textual Politics of Change
- Arka Chattopadhyay 4. 'Made of words': Beckett and the Politics of Language
- Alan Graham 5. 'First the Place, Then I'll Find Me in It': The Unnamable's Pronouns and the Politics of Confinement
- James Little BECKETT& BIOPOLITICS: Editors' Preface 6. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine
- Seán Kennedy 7. Tweaking Misogyny or Misogyny Twisted: Beckett's Take on 'Aristotle and Phyllis' in Happy Days
- Kumiko Kiuchi 8. Insufferable Maternity and Motherhood in 'First Love'
- Brenda O'Connell 9. Beckett, Biopolitics and the Problem of Life
- Marc Farrant 10. Beckett's Portrait of the Artist as a Young 'Post-War Degenerate'
- Giovanna Vincenti 11. Waiting for Godot and the Fascist Aesthetics of the Body
- Hannah Simpson BECKETT& GEOPOLITICS: Editors' Preface 12. Political Theatre and the Beckett Problem
- Emilie Morin 13. 'The air is full of our cries': Staging Godot during apartheid South Africa
- Matthew McFrederick 14. Samuel Beckett's Nominalist Politics and the Pitfalls of 'Presentism'
- Matthew Feldman 15. Samuel Beckett's Subaltern Figures
- Brendan Dowling 16. The Big House in the Suburbs: Home Thoughts from Abroad in Watt
- Feargal Whelan 17. Beckett and the Politics of Empathy in Site-Specific Theatre
- Niamh M. Bowe 18. Towards A Modernism with Meaning: Beckett's Refugees
- Rodney Sharkey Afterword
- Peter Boxall.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030471101
- 3030471101
- Publisher Number:
- 99986019023
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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