Beckett Matters
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Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels.
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S.E. Gontarski is een vooraanstaand academicus wiens werk zich richt op de analyse van moderne en hedendaagse literatuur, met nadruk op stijlen en thema's. Zijn uitgebreide onderzoeksbeurzen en redactionele werk voor toonaangevende literaire tijdschriften getuigen van zijn diepgaande betrokkenheid bij de literaire wereld. Gontarski's benadering van literatuur kenmerkt zich door nauwgezet tekstueel onderzoek en een diepe overweging van bredere culturele en filosofische contexten. Zijn expertise belicht de complexiteit van literaire productie en receptie, en biedt lezers diepere inzichten in de werken die het moderne literaire landschap hebben gevormd.
"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"..