Beckett’s Art of Mismaking / Leland de la Durantaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De la Durantaye, Leland, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Technique.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Literary style.

Errors and blunders, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Sources and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. First Forms to Accommodate the Mess

2. The Will to Mismake, or Fish and Chips

3. Nature Painting

4. The Alibi of a Foreign Language

5. To Hell with All This Fucking Scenery

6. No Symbols Where None Intended

7. The Psychopathology of Character Creation, or The Series

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780674495852

0674495853

9780674495838

0674495837

OCLC:

933835881