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Beckett and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New)
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Beckett and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New)
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Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel
Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their
refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett
hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true
representation of the physical world; instead he found himself
immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel
Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through
allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of
non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived,
Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect
route available. Albright explores Beckett's experimentation with
the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak.
This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett's own
engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as
part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic.
Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very
notion of the aesthetic.
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