Title: Since Beckett : contemporary writing in the wake of modernism /
Authors: Boxall, Peter
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, Influence.; Beckett, Samuel, Criticism and interpretation.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History
Abstract: This text looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited.
Contents: Introduction. Since Beckett -- pt. 1. Back Roads: Beckett, Banville and Ireland -- 1. Edgeworth, Bowen, Beckett, Banville: A Minor Tradition -- 2. Spectrality and Eclipse: Beckett and Banville -- 3. Unknown Unity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville -- pt. 2. Tune Accordingly: Beckett, Bernhard and Sebald -- 4. Faint Clarity: Tuning in Beckett -- 5. All Balls: Quotation and Correction in Beckett and Bernhard -- 6. Quite Singular Clarity: Beckett, Bernhard, Sebald -- pt. 3. How It Ought To Be: Beckett, Globalization and Utopia -- 7. From Joyce to Beckett: From National to Global -- 8. Knowledge Within Bounds: Beckett, Globalization and the limits of Perception -- 9. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Beckett in the Ruins of the Future.