Illustrations; Music examples; Introduction: Beckett and surrealism; 1. Stage: resisting failure; 2. Tape recorder, radio, film, television: resisting the human image; 3. Music: losing the will to resist.
This 2003 book engages with radio, film, television, prose and drama and shows Beckett as a sophisticated theorist of aesthetics.
Daniel Albright is Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of many books on music and modernist literature, including Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge 1997), Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts (2000) and Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Source Materials (2003).
"...an intellectual tour de force that offers a profound and lucid analysis of Beckett's artistic practice. Albright is at ease with the numerous discourses he uses and writes poetically and provocatively. For its elegance, rigour, and insights, Beckett and Aesthetics ought to be required reading for anyone interested in Beckett's drama and performance work." Modern Drama
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