Beckett’s Creatures. Art of Failure after the Holocaust
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27Z_OP_A0001
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Methuen
- ISBN
- 9781474234542
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/becketts-creatures-9781474234542/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (pp.252) is the first full-length study of Samuel Beckett’s evocations of the ‘creature’ and the politico-philosophical concept of ‘creaturely life’ in his prose and drama. It investigates the aesthetic and political dimensions of the ‘creaturely’ suspension between established humanist thought and post-human indeterminacy in Beckett’s work to reveal his indirect responses to the crises in art and humanity after 1945. Through close readings of primary sources across Beckett’s 60-year publishing career and extensive study of his life and letters, the book offers new critical insight into Beckett’s forms and themes of failure and dehumanisation.
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- Non-English
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