Existential and its Exits

Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter

AvL. A. C. Dobrez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism

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Beskrivning

The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature – and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relation to Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. Readers will find this account enlightening in its discussion of Existentialism itself and its application of Existentialist principles in modern literature. Thus this book will be of great value to students of both contemporary literature and modern philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-07
Mått:161 x 240 x 26 mm
Vikt:744 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472507778

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L. A. C. Dobrez is Head of the Department of English, Australian National University, Australia.

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Beckett Irreducible1 Beckett: the Reduction2 Beckett: the philosophical tradition3 Beckett and Sartre: the Unnamable and the pour soi4 Beckett and Heidegger: being-in-the-world and the concept of angst5 Beckett and Heidegger: Existence, nothingness and Being II Ionesco and the experience of wonder6 Ionesco: claustrophobia and eurphoria 7 Ionesco and Heidegger: authenticity and the collective 8 Ionesco and Heidegger: authenticity, death and the search for being III Genet’s solitude9 Genet: solitude and the Sartrean Look10 Genet and Sartre: the murderer and the saint11 Genet and Sartre: the image and the revolutionaryIV The approach to art12 Beckett: the task of saying nothing13 Genet and the Mass: sacrament as efficacious sign14 Ionesco: the free imagination V Pinter and the problem of verification15 Pinter and phenomenology: the subjective-objective synthesis16 Pinter: psychological realism and the scientific approach17 Pinter: the lure of objectivityConclusion Source referencesIndex