Conor Carville

Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the most important writer of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781108436373
• ISBN-10: 1108436374
• Artikelnr.: 61445823

Autorenporträt

Conor Carville is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Reading. His book The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity appeared in 2012 and a volume of poetry, Harm's Way, was published in 2013. His writing on art has appeared in Frieze and Circa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beckett and the image
1. A poetics of the image: Paris and Dublin 1929-1932
2. The politics of the image: Dublin, Paris, London 1931-1936
3. Beckett's German Renaissance
4. 'Terrifying materiality': Watteau, Yeats, Picasso, Duchamp
5. Impossible image: Watt and failed ekphrasis
6. From Bram van Velde to The Unnamable
7. 'Sordid abstraction': prose, plays, paintings.