Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.
| ISBN: | 9780582298071 |
| Publication date: | 27th September 1999 |
| Author: | Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 291 pages |
| Series: | Longman Critical Readers |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes.
Samuel Beckett features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Samuel Beckett was written by Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Samuel Beckett has 291 pages
Yes it is part of Longman Critical Readers series
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