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Beckett and/in Context: A Review of James McNaughton's Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Source
Journal of Modern Literature. Spring 2023, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p176, 4 p.
Subject
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath (Nonfiction work) -- McNaughton, James
Books -- Book reviews
Literature/writing
Language
English
ISSN
0022-281X
Abstract
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath presents a historicist and materialist analysis of Samuel Beckett's work. Building on the historicist turn in modernist studies, as well as Irish studies and postcolonial paradigms, it develops new terms through which we can understand Beckett's political aesthetic. McNaughton performs a series of close readings of the Beckett archive and corpus to reveal a politically aware and committed Beckett, one whose writing is both complicit with and reacting against the political ideologies and failures of his time. Keywords: Samuel Beckett / modernist studies / Irish studies
James McNaughton. Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath. Oxford UP, 2018. 226 pp. $91.00 hardcover. James McNaughton's Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath follows the recent historicist and [...]