| Women in Samuel Beckett's Prose and Drama: Her Own Other 1993 Edition Contributor(s): Bryden, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333573064 ISBN-13: 9780333573068 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $151.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| Physical Information: 222 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beckett's early writing is structured upon very sharply defined gender polarities. Objects of alarm, lust, derision, or indifference, women incarnate the 'Other', Beckett's shift from fiction to stage and media drama - giving a voice to women - unsettles this adversarial structure. In the later prose and drama, gender qualifies Beckett's people for neither fear nor favour. Mary Bryden's analysis, embraces not only Beckett's published prose and drama, but also a number of unpublished and draft manuscripts from Reading University's Beckett Archive. |