Literary cynics Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
"Literary Cynics reconsiders the meanings of words like cynicism and cosmopolitanism for Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, testing the limits of their merely cynical cosmopolitanism. Arthur Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46074600*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Paradox One: Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee. 1. Defacing the Currency of Cosmopolitan Fame. i. Fame ; ii. Cosmopolitanism ; iii. Cynical Cosmopolitans
- Paradox Two: Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth. 2. Borges's Parables. i. Biographical Performance ; ii. Writerly Parables ; iii. Historical Parables
- Paradox Three: Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox. 3. Beckett's Antinomical Theatre. i. Ohio Impromptu ; ii. Catastrophe ; iii. What Where
- Paradox Four: Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa. 4. Coetzee's Enantiosemiotic Lessons. i. The Diatribe ; ii. The Essay
- Paradox Five: Creaturely Dog Men
- Conclusion: On Mere Life.
