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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre). -- .

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"'I believe that with such a survey, Cornwell's book will be the new standard published volume on the absurd.' Professor Richard J. Lane"

Table of Contents

PART 1: Introductory
1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction
2. Antecedents to the Absurd
PART 2: Growth of the Absurd
3. The Twentieth Century: towards the absurd
4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century Absurdist Practice
5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd
PART 3: Special Authors
6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist
7. Franz Kafka: Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity
8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices and Shades of the Absurd
9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd
IN CONCLUSION
10. Beyond the Absurd?
Conclusion

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780719074097, 978-0719074097
      ISBN10: 719074096

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre). -- .

      Trade Review
      "'I believe that with such a survey, Cornwell's book will be the new standard published volume on the absurd.' Professor Richard J. Lane"

      Table of Contents

      PART 1: Introductory
      1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction
      2. Antecedents to the Absurd
      PART 2: Growth of the Absurd
      3. The Twentieth Century: towards the absurd
      4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century Absurdist Practice
      5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd
      PART 3: Special Authors
      6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist
      7. Franz Kafka: Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity
      8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices and Shades of the Absurd
      9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd
      IN CONCLUSION
      10. Beyond the Absurd?
      Conclusion

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