The Absurd in LiteratureManchester University Press, 31 oct 2006 - 354 páginas Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) - as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader. |
Índice
an introduction | 2 |
Antecedents to the absurd | 33 |
towards the absurd | 66 |
twentiethcentury absurdist practice | 99 |
the Theatre of the Absurd | 126 |
Daniil Kharms as minimalistabsurdist | 158 |
otherness in the labyrinth of absurdity | 184 |
Samuel Becketts vessels voices and shades of the absurd | 215 |
Flann OBrien and the purloined absurd | 251 |
Beyond the absurd? | 280 |
Conclusion | 309 |
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