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Revisioning Beckett - Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn (Hardcover)
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Revisioning Beckett - Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn (Hardcover)
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Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary
output, particularly his engagement with what might be called
decadent modernism. Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple
viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of
Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his
preoccupations to "find literature in the pornography, or beneath
the pornography," his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the
mid-1950s over London stagings of his first two plays, and his
close professional and personal associations with publishers who
celebrated the work of the demimonde. Much of that term encompasses
an opening to the fullness of human experience denied in previous
centuries, and much of that has been sexual or decadent. As
Gontarski shows, the aesthetics that emerges from such early career
encounters and associations continues to inform Beckett's work and
develops into experimental modes that upend literary models and
middle-class values, an aesthetics that, furthermore, has inspired
any number of visual artists to re-vision Beckett.
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