Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism

Author:   Nick Wolterman
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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Pages:   204
Publication Date:   21 July 2022
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Author:   Nick Wolterman
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9783031056499


ISBN 10:   3031056493
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   21 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Ideal Uninterpretablity: Beckett’s Aporetic Ambitions Un-ideal Interpreters, Targeted Ambiguities: Beckett and Modernism Janus-Faced Arguments: Beckett’s Interwar Essays and Other Self-Divided Defenses of Modernism Paradoxical Principles in Proust, Joyce, and the Joyce Circle Beckett’s Overdetermined Target Audiences Experimental Explanations as Weak Modernist Criticism Impossible Anti-values: Beckett’s Postwar Writing and the Self-defeating Pursuit of Absolute Loss Mimesis and Artistic Value in “Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit” Non-productive Anti-values in Bataille and Beckett Repetition as Expenditure in Molloy and Waiting for Godot The Productivity of Inattention Beckett’s Failure to Fail Slippery Self-commentaries: Avant-garde Celebrity from Dream to Endgame Ineradicable Constructednesss in Tzara and Beckett Self-undermining Authority in Tzara and Beckett Dreams of Infinite Delay in Duchamp and Beckett Celebrity as an Artistic Medium Staged Compromises: Anticipating Appropriation from Eleutheria to Havel to Catastrophe The Difficulties of Directness Targeting the Beckett Brand Creative Infidelity Re-targeting Modernist Failure

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Nick Wolterman is an independent scholar based in York, UK. He received his PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York.     

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