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Reading the absurd / Joanna Gavins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gavins, Joanna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Absurd (Philosophy) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievementsSince Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the Absurd' to describe experimental drama in the mid-twentieth century, the term 'absurd' has been adopted as a means of discussing a vast array of literary text. Many accounts have focused on the philosophical and thematic concerns of absurd prose fiction, but literary-criticism has failed to agree on the stylistic, generic, and temporal. This volume takes an alternative approach: its core aim is to provide a coherent, linguistica
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Literary Absurd
- 2 Identifying the Absurd
- 3 Absurd Minds
- 4 Absurd Fictions
- 5 Absurd Verses
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780748669271
- 0748669272
- 9780748669295
- 0748669299
- OCLC:
- 1027178435
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