Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern NovelSUNY Press, 28 de set. de 2000 - 194 páginas Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative. Weisberg explores Beckett's emergence as a major novelist and intertwines sharp analyses of the relations between narrative form and social content in the key works of the Beckett canon. He considers how and why Beckett's work has become ahistorically--and incorrectly--subsumed into poststructuralist-inspired claims about language and narrative ideology, and he uses Beckett as a case study for tracing out the genesis of the opposition of "autonomous" and "committed" art, and how this opposition influenced the canonization of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s. |
Conteúdo
Entering the Literary Field | 10 |
Juxtaposition and Ethical Judgment in Dante and the Lobster | 17 |
Versions of Modernism | 24 |
Contact with the Outside World | 28 |
Contact with Outer Reality in Murphy | 32 |
Novel of Resistance or Accident of War? | 41 |
Rewriting Modernism in the Nouvelles | 53 |
Writing and Begging in The End | 56 |
Molloy two Moran the Agent | 102 |
Strong Enough at Last to Act No More | 107 |
Agent Voice Purpose | 110 |
Beckett and the Postwar Critique of Narrative | 116 |
A Contest of Nightmares The Unnamable and 1984 | 124 |
The Flaneur in a Jar | 131 |
The Reinvention of the New and the Aesthetic of Failure | 137 |
Orwells Inside the Whale and 1984 | 149 |
From the Metropolis to the Text | 64 |
Author or Writing Subject? Beckett and Postmodern Fiction | 73 |
Molloy one Molloy the Subject | 83 |
The Production of the Story | 88 |
Molloy and the Police | 91 |
Subjectivity as a Modernist Universal | 97 |
Engagement Ecriture Autonomy The Displacement of Politics in Postwar Critical Theory | 161 |
NOTES | 169 |
WORKS CITED | 185 |
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