Samuel Beckett and the visual
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 65982
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108422772
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first monograph to assess Beckett's knowledge of the visual arts, their history, and the critical tradition surrounding them. Examining published and unpublished sources, and archives in Britain and Ireland, the 272pp. trace Beckett's understanding of painting in particular as instigation to his writing. Product of 6 years’ research, it demonstrates that Beckett's thinking about aesthetics was informed by his knowledge of philosophy, and that it often responded to the intellectual contexts he was exploring through art. Moving between art history, philosophy, and historical contexts, the book rethinks Beckett's career through his relationships to modernism and the avant-gardes.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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