Beckett Matters
- 288 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
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.
S. E Gontarski Knihy
S.E. Gontarski je uznávaným literárnym vedcom, ktorého práce sa sústredia na analýzu modernej a súčasnej literatúry, s dôrazom na jej štýly a témy. Jeho rozsiahle výskumné granty a editorská práca na popredných literárnych časopisoch svedčia o jeho hlbokom porozumení literárnemu svetu. Gontarskiho prístup k literatúre je charakteristický starostlivým skúmaním textov a ich širšieho kultúrneho a filozofického kontextu. Jeho odbornosť osvetľuje zložitosti literárnej produkcie a recepcie, čím čitateľom ponúka hlbší vhľad do diel, ktoré formovali modernú literárnu krajinu.
"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"..