This accessible Introduction provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Essential reading for students, this book provides the necessary tools to develop the study of some of the twentieth century's most influential works.
This accessible Introduction provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Essential reading for students, this book provides the necessary tools to develop the study of some of the twentieth century's most influential works.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011), Words, Space, and the Audience (2012) and Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012); the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (2011); and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012). He is also Editor of The Edward Albee Review.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: overview of the absurd 2. Setting the stage 3. The emergence of a 'movement': the historical and intellectual contexts 4. Samuel Beckett 5. Beckett's notable contemporaries 6. The European and American wave of absurdism 7. Post-absurdism? 8. Absurd criticism.
1. Introduction: overview of the absurd 2. Setting the stage 3. The emergence of a 'movement': the historical and intellectual contexts 4. Samuel Beckett 5. Beckett's notable contemporaries 6. The European and American wave of absurdism 7. Post-absurdism? 8. Absurd criticism.
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