Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230619449)

This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett's engagement with history. As the first full-length volume to address the historical debate in Beckett studies, Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive provides both ground-breaking analysis of the major works as well as a sustained interrogation of the critical assumptions that underpin Beckett studies more generally. Drawing on a range of archival materials, and situating Beckett in historical context, these essays pose a strong challenge to the prevailing critical consensus that he was a deracinated modernist who cannot be read historically.

Author: S. Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0230619444
ISBN-13: 9780230619449
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2010
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.67h x 6.51w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2010