Neil Cornwell

The absurd in literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796578
• Artikelnr.: 48796438

Autorenporträt

Neil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: Introductory 1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction 2.
Antecedents to the Absurd PART 2: Growth of the Absurd 3. The Twentieth
Century: towards the absurd 4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century
Absurdist Practice 5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd PART
3: Special Authors 6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist 7. Franz Kafka:
Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity 8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices
and Shades of the Absurd 9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd IN
CONCLUSION 10. Beyond the Absurd? Conclusion