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科图分类法:
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I562.065/5 版次： |
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I562.065 版次： |
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著者:
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Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, |
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题名:
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Samuel Beckett / / , |
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出版发行:
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出版地： Oxford : 出版社： Oxford University Press, 出版日期： 2022. |
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载体形态:
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vi, 144 p. ; 22 cm. |
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内容提要:
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After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's novels and stories. She follows his trajectory from the first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, through the great postwar trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and on to the ever more experimental inventions in the shorter, later fictions and monologues. Through readings of his work alongside extracts from his published correspondence, Beckett emerges as a sympathetic human figure, a poet of productive doubt, and a brilliant stylist of mood changes and second thoughts. Bodenheimer considers Beckett's treatments of memory, nostalgia, and grief, and the forms he finds to convey those essential human experiences while avoiding melodrama or sentimentality. His dramatized relationship with his own writing is a crucial part of that emotional landscape. His playful jousts with the conventions of novel-writing show how, from the start, Beckett challenged the notion of character and other inherited novel conventions. The book also emphasizes his dismantling of the autobiographical "I," his moving narratives of attachment and loss, and the inimitable mixture of comedy and pathos he creates by inventing outlandish situations to which his characters respond with very recognizable human anxieties and adaptations. |
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主题词:
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Dramatists, Irish Criticism and interpretation. 20th century |
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索书号:
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I562.065/5 |