{"title":"Series: Elements in Beckett Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eElements in Beckett Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e series offers a rich exploration of Samuel Beckett's work through innovative critical essays and scholarly inquiry. Readers will find insightful analyses that illuminate Beckett's complex engagement with philosophy, language, and narrative form, inviting a deeper understanding of his enduring literary influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBridging diverse disciplines, this collection appeals to enthusiasts of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e and literary theory alike, presenting thought-provoking perspectives that challenge and expand traditional readings of Beckett’s oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beckett-and-leopardi-by-peter-nicholls-9781009431002","title":"Beckett and Leopardi","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, \u003cem\u003eBeckett and Leopardi\u003c\/em\u003e looks past the impasse – between going on and not going on – that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397745524972,"sku":"9781009431002","price":75.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3ff7acafafebffc0120363c44981d2a6.jpg?v=1773778918"},{"product_id":"quotidian-beckett-by-patrick-bixby-9781009486132","title":"Quotidian Beckett","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e explores the writer's evolving response to this realm of experience, which philosophers and sociologists have paradoxically described as both everywhere and nowhere, obvious and enigmatic. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's influential theories of everyday life, the Element demonstrates how Beckett's writing, by producing forms that resist transparency and closure, invites us to see the mundane in unfamiliar, unsettling, and politically charged ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this regard, his artistic achievement lies in rendering the elusiveness of the quotidian with a vividness that other modes of discourse seldom achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397980438764,"sku":"9781009486132","price":75.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11154193482547.jpg?v=1773733880"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-elements-in-beckett-studies.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}