Cornwell The absurd in literature

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-167-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cornwell, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: Introductory
1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction
2. Antecedents to the Absurd
PART 2: Growth of the Absurd
3. The Twentieth Century: towards the absurd
4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century Absurdist Practice
5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd
PART 3: Special Authors
6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist
7. Franz Kafka: Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity
8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices and Shades of the Absurd
9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd
IN CONCLUSION
10. Beyond the Absurd?
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cornwell Neil:
Neil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of BristolNeil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol