SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE BORDERLINES OF MODERNISM

• Authors: Chorvathova M.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper is focused on contact points of different paradigms in the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-989). Using the example of his early experimental prose (Murphy, 1938; Watt, 1944), the paper explores Beckett's problematic position in the context of the modernist project and the transition to postmodernism: the overlapping/fading of modernist optimism (the effort to erase the gap between the language and the objects denominates) and the rise of postmodern scepticism (the fundamental inadequacy of the language.

Keywords

EN

LANGUAGE; LITERARY STYLE; MODERNISM; POSTMODERNISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-46
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chorvathova M.

• M. Chorvathova, Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00962220