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050	0	4	_aPR6003.E282 _bZ8284 2023
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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSchwab, Gabriele, _eauthor. _924671
245	1	0	_aMoments for Nothing : _bSamuel Beckett and the End Times / _cGabriele Schwab.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2023]
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work has taken on new meaning as we are living in a period defined by both paralyzing stasis and turbulence. Moreover, as we approach an era that will increasingly be shaped by climate change and pandemics, Beckett's particular sense of end times and his vision of human adaptability offers a critical lens to understand our times and also, perhaps, provides solace. In Samuel Beckett's Poetics of the End Times, Gabriele Schwab draws on her decades-long engagement with Beckett. She describes how Beckett's ideas defined her work as a critic and theorist and also provided a sanctuary during difficult times in her personal life. She examines Beckett's writings from the more famous works including Happy Days and End Game to lesser-known works such as Breath his 35-second play, which Schwab reads anew in light of our experience with COVID-19 as a meditation on living and grounding oneself as we confront loneliness, vulnerability, and perpetual anxiety"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moments for Nothing: Endgame and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transitional Space Between Life and Death: "The Calmative," Molloy, and Malone Dies -- 3. End Times of Subjectivity: The Unnamable -- 4. "Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe": Happy Days and the Last Humans -- 5. Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: The Lost Ones -- Coda: Breath and the Vicissitudes of Animation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2023).
590			_aWorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
600	1	0	_aBeckett, Samuel, _d1906-1989 _xCriticism and interpretation. _911847
600	1	7	_aBeckett, Samuel, _d1906-1989. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00035621 _924672
650		0	_aEnd of the world in literature. _924673
650		7	_aEnd of the world in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00909643 _924673
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635 _95662
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01986215 _912482
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft _912482
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSchwab, Gabriele. _tMoments for Nothing _dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2023] _z9780231211604 _w(DLC) 2023008232
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