{"product_id":"revisioning-beckett-samuel-becketts-decadent-turn-paperback","title":"Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eS. E. Gontarski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Uhlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevisioning Beckett \u003c\/i\u003ereassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to \"find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography, +? his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the mid-1950s over London stagings of his first two plays, and his close professional and personal associations with publishers who celebrated the work of the \u003ci\u003edemimonde\u003c\/i\u003e. Much of that term encompasses an opening to the fullness of human experience denied in previous centuries, and much of that has been sexual or decadent. As Gontarski shows, the aesthetics that emerges from such early career encounters and associations continues to inform Beckett's work and develops into experimental modes that upend literary models and middle-class values, an aesthetics that, furthermore, has inspired any number of visual artists to re-vision Beckett.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. E. Gontarski \u003c\/b\u003eis Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA, where he edited the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Beckett Studies \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1989 to 2008. He is the author or editor of 29 books. His editions of Beckett's writings include \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1928-1989 \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV: The Shorter Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eThe Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: Endgame\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships, and has been Guest Editor of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, T\u003ci\u003ehe Review of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModern Fiction Studies, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDrammaturgia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769211269368,"sku":"9781501337628","price":74.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/am_8OG99Ww9781501337628.webp?v=1780390229","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/revisioning-beckett-samuel-becketts-decadent-turn-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}