Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett
The Stoic Comedians
An enlightening study of three writers, Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians begins with an explanation of the effect of the printing press on books. The book as book has been removed from the oral tradition by such features as prefaces, footnotes, and indexes. Books have become voiceless in some sense--they are to be read silently, not recited aloud. How this mechanical change affected the possibilities of fiction is Kenner's subject. Each of the three featured authors approached this situation in a unique, yet connected way: Flaubert as the Comedian of the Enlightenment, categorizing man's intellectual follies; Joyce as the Come…
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Weitere Autoren: Davenport, Guy, Professor (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-380-6
- EAN: 9781564783806
- Produktnummer: 23505970
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 107 S.
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Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.
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