TY  - GEN
T1  - Literary cynics : Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
A1  - Rose, Arthur, 1981-
LA  - English
PP  - London, UK ; New York, NY, USA
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn971119040
AB  - "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 these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to a 'late style', Rose demonstrates how these writers develop rhetorical strategies for coping with fame, cosmopolitanism and aesthetic form that become useful when returning to the canonical texts of their respective 'high' periods. In addition to these 'late' works, Literary Cynics offers a rigorous rapprochement to classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee's Disgrace to Beckett's letters."--
OP  - 244
CN  - PN771 .R55 2017eb
SN  - 9781474258678
SN  - 1474258670
SN  - 9781474258661
SN  - 1474258662
SN  - 9781474258654
SN  - 1474258654
SN  - 9781474258647
SN  - 1474258646
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis, : 1899-1986 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Beckett, Samuel, : 1906-1989 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Coetzee, J. M., : 1940- : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Beckett, Samuel, : 1906-1989
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis, : 1899-1986
KW  - Coetzee, J. M., : 1940-
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis : 1899-1986
KW  - Beckett, Samuel : 1906-1989
KW  - Coetzee, J. M. : 1940-
KW  - Literature, Modern : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Cynicism in literature.
KW  - Littérature : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Cynisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
KW  - Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
KW  - Literary theory.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Modern : 20th Century.
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Cynicism in literature
KW  - Zynismus
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -