Beckett and Stein
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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98435-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98435-5 (ISBN)
This Element is for scholars of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and literary modernism. It is of interest to those looking to understand Beckett's bilingual development and aesthetics, and to those looking to redress the absence of female authors from studies of Beckett's influences by introducing Stein as a key figure.
What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the first extended comparative study of Stein's role in the development of Beckett's aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the major critical lacuna that is Stein's role and influence on Beckett's nascent bilingual aesthetics of the late 1930s. It argues for Stein's influence on the aesthetics of language Beckett developed throughout the 1930s, and on the overall evolution of his bilingual English writings, arguing that Stein's writing was itself inherently bilingual. It forwards the technique of renarration – a form of repetition identifiable in the work of both authors – as a deliberate narrative strategy adopted by both authors to actualise the desired semantic tearing concordant with their aesthetic praxes in English.
What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the first extended comparative study of Stein's role in the development of Beckett's aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the major critical lacuna that is Stein's role and influence on Beckett's nascent bilingual aesthetics of the late 1930s. It argues for Stein's influence on the aesthetics of language Beckett developed throughout the 1930s, and on the overall evolution of his bilingual English writings, arguing that Stein's writing was itself inherently bilingual. It forwards the technique of renarration – a form of repetition identifiable in the work of both authors – as a deliberate narrative strategy adopted by both authors to actualise the desired semantic tearing concordant with their aesthetic praxes in English.
1. Introduction: 'grammar is in our power' (Stein, 1975, 73); 2. Grammar bound: writings on language; 3. Renarration in the making of Americans and watt; 4. Getting mixed: Lexical renarrations; 5. Lexical renarrations and the goodbye to standard English: Stein's role in the development of Beckett's bilingual English praxis; 6. 'Waste no more time trying to get it right': Beckett and Stein's 'fidelity to failure' (Beckett, 2009d, 42; 2001, 145); 7. Conclusion: 'say it simply. [...] say it simplier' (Stein, 1975, 147); References.
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Elements in Beckett Studies |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 118 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-98435-5 / 1108984355 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-98435-5 / 9781108984355 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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