{"product_id":"revisioning-beckett-s-e-gontarski-9781501337628","title":"Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevisioning Beckett \u003c\/i\u003ereassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGontarski 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 \u003ci\u003edemimonde\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. E. Gontarski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501337629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501337628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"S. E. Gontarski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489277300991,"sku":"9781501337628","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cf01ec6-7622-4c57-a818-2e819ed27ba5.jpg?v=1736953078","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revisioning-beckett-s-e-gontarski-9781501337628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}